Rodelinda (2017)
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.
Directors: Claus Guth, Stéphane Lebard.
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Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda |
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Bejun Mehta as Bertarido |
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Jeremy Ovenden as Grimoaldo |
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Sonia Prina as Eduige |
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Lawrence Zazzo as Unulfo |
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Umberto Chiummo as Garibaldo |
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Fabián Augusto Gómez as Flavio |
| Directing | Claus Guth | Director |
| Sound | Georg Friedrich Händel | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Nicola Francesco Haym | Writer |
| Art | Christian Schmidt | Set Designer |
| Sound | Ivor Bolton | Conductor |
| Writing | Antonio Salvi | Original Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christian Schmidt | Costume Designer |
| Lighting | Joachim Klein | Lighting Design |
| Crew | Konrad Kuhn | Dramaturgy |
| Directing | Stéphane Lebard | Director |
| Writing | Pierre Corneille | Original Story |
| Visual Effects | Andi A. Müller | Visual Effects Designer |
| Editing | Stéphanie Dumesnil | Editor |
| Camera | Cécile Trelluyer | Director of Photography |
| Production | Natalia Camacho | Executive Producer |
| Production | Frédéric Allain | Producer |
