Rinaldo
From: Thursday, 17th November 2011
To: Thursday, 17 November 2011
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Synopsis
At its first performance in 1711 Rinaldo took London by storm firmly establishing Handel's reputation and popularity.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 17 November 2011
“An exotic and irrational entertainment”. So runs the famous 18th century definition of opera. Exotic at that time meant lands, peoples and customs from the areas lapping against “civilised” western Europe. Historic and folk memories, the stuff of children’s stories. Irrational? Perhaps all dreams – particularly those of young people – are ever thus.
That seems to have been the starting point for Robert Carsen’s production of Handel’s first London opera Rinaldo, revived by Bruno Ravella for the current tour. We begin and end in a boarding school where a pupil thinks of the girl he loves and his classmates – not to mention the staff –, bully him. As in any disjointed dream where reality melds into fantasy, the action has many levels within its confining frame and its people take on different roles as the multiple levels of music and stage drama unfold.
Conductor Laurence Cummings does wonde...
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