A rare outing for Handel's Rodelinda in Rome

Giuseppina Bridelli and La Lira di Orfeo

Luigi Morassi

By Pia Maltri, 25 November 2024

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Reviewed at Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 22 November 2024

Handel, Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi

La Lira di Orfeo

Karina Gauvin, Rodelinda

Raffaele Pe, Bertarido

Luigi Morassi, Grimoaldo

Giuseppina Bridelli, Eduige

Mirco Palazzi, Garibaldo

Rafał Tomkiewicz, Unulfo

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Pia Maltri

Pia first fell head over heels for opera when she was a teenager by listening to recordings of some of the great voices of the past: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus. She holds a degree in Italian Literature and she lives in Rome.