Saturday, September 15, 2012

HANDEL : ORLANDO

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 16th of September 2012 at 3 - 6 pm

HANDEL: Orlando, an opera in three acts
Orlando........................ Bejun Mehta
Angelica....................... Sophie Karthäuser
Medoro........................ Kristina Hammarström
Dorinda........................ Sunhae Im
Zoroastro..................... Konstantin Wolff
B'Rock Baroque Orch/René Jacobs  
(recorded in La Monnaie, Brussels, by Belgium Radio)

PROLOG
PREVIEW
SYNOPSIS
LIBRETTO (pdf)

This performance from Belgium is under the musical direction of René Jacobs; I liked him when he was a counter-tenor, but he has given that voice away, and he now devotes his energies to studying early operas and having them performed, with splendid results, as his recordings demonstrate.

ORLANDO is one of three operas of Handel that are based on Ariosto's poem ORLANDO FURIOSO; the other two are ARIODANTE and ALCINA:
handel-alcina.html
And this is what Vivaldi did with the same material:
vivaldi-orlando-finto-pazzo.html
vivaldi-orlando-furioso.html

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