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Flailing capes, plumed helmets, Baroque machinery: Pizzi’s Rinaldo is back in Venice!

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“a spectacular production... striking, gorgeous images come in unrelenting succession”
Reviewed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 31 August 2021
Handel, Rinaldo
Teatro La Fenice
Federico Maria Sardelli, Conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Massimo Gasparon, Lighting Designer
Francesca Aspromonte, Almirena
Maria Laura Iacobellis, Armida
Valentina Corò, Mermaid 1
Marilena Ruta, Mermaid 2
Teresa Iervolino, Rinaldo
Leonardo Cortellazzi, Goffredo
Tommaso Barea, A Christian Magician, Argante
Shuxin Li, A herald
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