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ComposerHandel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
PeriodBaroque
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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Handel: Orlando
Marc Minkowski; Les Musiciens du Louvre; Ana Maria Labin; Alina Wunderlin; Yuriy Mynenko

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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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Handel: Orlando
Christophe Rousset; Jeanne Desoubeaux; Opéra national de Lorraine; Cécile Trémolières; Alex Costantino; Thomas Coux; Les Talens Lyriques
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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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Exquisite Handelian singing in San Francisco Opera's Orlando

The evening’s most revelatory performance came from the young countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Medoro. 
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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.