“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...
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 ...
Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...
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 ...
Remarkably, in its more than two decades as the nation’s leading baroque opera specialist, Pinchgut Opera, has never performed an opera by the undisputed master of the baroque, George Frideric Handel.
Premiering in 1711, Handel’s “Rinaldo” was the first Italian-language opera written for the London stage, and it was an immediate success. After 1731, however, it fell out of favor — for a good two ...
IRVING - You've got to admire the bravery of the American Baroque Opera Company. Founded just three years ago, the Dallas-based organization is putting on staged productions of challenging repertory ...