Handel: Rinaldo - Festival della Valle d'Itria (2018)
Handel’s Rinaldo was presented at the 2018 Festival della Valle d’Itria in its rare Neapolitan version of 1718, reconstructed from historical sources by musicologist Giovanni Andrea Sechi. Created in Naples by Leonardo Leo and other composers after the opera’s success in London, this version incorporates additional music, comic characters and intermezzi, and was performed in modern times for the first time. Fabio Luisi conducted the baroque ensemble La Scintilla, with Teresa Iervolino as Rinaldo and Carmela Remigio as Armida. Giorgio Sangati’s colourful, rock-inspired production transformed the protagonists into pop-culture figures, including Rinaldo as Freddie Mercury and Armida as Cher.
Director: Fabio Luisi
https://www.festivaldellavalleditria.it/en/spettacolo/rinaldo/2018-07-29
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Carmela Remigio as Armida |
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Francisco Fernàndez-Rueda as Goffredo |
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Loriana Castellano as Almirena |
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Teresa Iervolino as Rinaldo |
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Francesca Ascioti as Argante |
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Dara Savinova as Eustazio |
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Valentina Cardinali as Lesbina |
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Dielli Hoxha as Araldo di Argante |
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Simone Tangolo as Nesso |
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Kim-Lillian Strebel as Uno Spirito in forma di Donna |
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Ana Victória Pitts as Mago Cristiano |
| Writing | Georg Friedrich Händel | Writer |
| Crew | Georg Friedrich Händel | Compositor |
| Sound | Fabio Luisi | Conductor |
| Directing | Fabio Luisi | Director |
| Directing | Giorgio Sangati | Stage Director |
| Sound | Orchestra La Scintilla | Sound |
