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ComposerHandel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
PeriodBaroque
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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Moreton-in-MarshOrlandoNew production

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Handel: Orlando
Christopher Moulds; Sinéad O'Neill; Longborough Festival Opera; Anisha Fields; Ben Ormerod; Academy of Ancient Music

LyonFurioso

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Steffani, Vivaldi, Porpora, Fux, Handel
Franck-Emmanuel Comte; Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu; Xavier Sabata; Unknown
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Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

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Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando
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Academy of Ancient Music are inspired in Handel's Orlando

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“A concert performance with neither scenery nor action would be a sacrilege,” wrote one authority of this opera. Nobody told the Academy of Ancient Music...
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Method without madness: an intriguing Orlando at Buxton Festival

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Liberata Collective reveals the intricate language of Baroque gesture in a staging of one of Handel's most inventive operas.
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Madness in its prettiest form: Max Emanuel Cenčić on Orlando

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We spoke to countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić ahead of his performance of Handel’s opera Orlando at the Barokkfest Trondheim.

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From emperors and empresses to nymphs, gods and giants by way of faithful wives, sorceresses, knights, dastardly noblemen and dazzling coloratura arias, here's your guide to the master showman of Baroque opera.