Handel: Rodelinda / Theodora (complete operas recorded in 1996 & 1998) plus A Night with Handel
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Rodelinda / Theodora (complete operas recorded in 1996 & 1998) plus A Night with Handel
Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Anna Caterina Antonacci, Kurt Streit, Andreas Scholl, Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels / William Christie (cond)
[ Warner Classics NVC Arts / 3 DVD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 4 February 2017
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
Suitable for General Audiences
Two complete operas, Rodelinda & Theodora, and 'A Night With Handel' a performance-based film of arias set in contemporary London by night.
"Jean-Marie Villegier's brilliant, unnerving production...A great show - don't miss it."
The Guardian on Rodelinda
Rodelinda is a tale of unrequited love steeped in jealousy, treachery and grief. Jean-Marie Villegier's stylish production of Rodelinda sets Handel's tale of royal exile and fidelity in this silent movie era. The composer's ravishing music is perfectly set off by the sophisticated glamour and visual daring that characterized the birth of cinema.
For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes George Frideric Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century, enemy-occupied Antioch - and, by resetting it in modern-day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution.
