Carsen’s taken the plot of Handel’s 1711 opera - his first for the London stage - and transposed it into a 20th century classroom. Rinaldo is a schoolboy with a vivid imagination, who dreams up a ...

This opera was different from the other two. To begin with, it was produced by the Jerusalem Opera, established in 2011 to fill an opera vacuum in Jerusalem and promote Israeli artists, particularly ...

Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria. Rinaldo was ...

A frankly daft Crusading plot is reworked as the cartoonish fantasies of a schoolboy. Bullied by his classmates and bored of his history lesson, he recasts the Crusades with himself as warrior-hero ...

A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. At ...

A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

WHAT a glorious evening’s entertainment! Handel’s opera Rinaldo is packed with the most scintillating music, but the plot involving medieval warfare, magic and an evil sorceress who supposedly rides ...

Scene from Pacific Opera Victoria's production Rinaldo. Although the baroque music is unquestionably beautiful, there’s a problem with the plot of Handel’s opera Rinaldo. Simply put, the storyline is ...

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Four strong countertenors are on display in this school-based setting of Handel's opera, but the consistent playing for laughs feels both relentless and evasive The background to the plot of Handel's ...

When the curtain rose on Robert Carsen’s new staging of Handel’s Rinaldo, you could almost hear the audience’s low groan. Oh no, it’s going to be another of these weird productions. Not the lovely ...

Glyndebourne’s reputation as a Handel house receives a boost with Robert Carsen’s new production of Rinaldo. Its recent stagings of Rodelinda and Giulio Cesare may have been easier on the eye, but for ...