(Rodelinda)

Content: Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy Crowe and Bejun Mehta as Rodelinda and Bertarido, with conductor Ivor Bolton. After the successes of "Giulio Cesare" in 1723 and "Tamerlano" in 1724, Rodelinda completes the trilogy of Handel’s great opera seria masterpieces. The work was composed in 1725 using Nicola Francesco Haym’s libretto, a work inspired by Antonio Salvi’s earlier libretto which had been itself adapted from Pierre Corneille’s tragedy "Pertharite, roi des Lombards". Rodelinda thus brought one of the most glorious compositional periods in the Handel’s career to a close, about a decade after his arrival in the British capital. Mixing romantic storytelling and political intrigue, Handel produced one of his most beautiful scores, a true operatic tour de force.

Countries:

Spain

Genres:

Music,

Drama

Runtime:

184 minutes

Year:

2017

Directors:

Claus Guth

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Production companies:

Teatro Real de Madrid,

Medici Arts,

TVE

Actors:

Rodelinda

Bertarido

Grimoaldo

Eduige

Unulfo

Crews:

Director

Original Music Composer

Writer

Set Designer

Conductor