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ComposerHandel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
PeriodBaroque
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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Santa Cruz de TenerifeOrlando

Auditorio de Tenerife
Handel: Orlando
Dani Espasa; Rafael R. Villalobos; Ópera de Tenerife; Emanuele Sinisi; Albert Faura; Vespres d'Arnadí

ViennaOrlandoConcert performance

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Handel: Orlando
Elisa Citterio; La Lira di Orfeo; Raffaele Pe; Roberta Mameli; Sarah Hayashi
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Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Beth Taylor (Orlando) © Matthew Williams-Ellis
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

Iestyn Davies and the Academy of Ancient Music © Mark Allan | Barbican
“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

Christian Joel (Orlando) and Jolyon Loy (Zoroastro) © David J King
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

Max Emanuel Cenčić © Parnassus Arts Productions | Anna Hoffmann
We spoke to countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić ahead of his performance of Handel’s opera Orlando at the Barokkfest Trondheim.

Bachtrack top ten: Handel operas

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson (1748) © Public domain
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.