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Date and venueTitle
10-Feb-2013
Barbican Centre: Hall
A finely-cast Radamisto from The English Concert
Image credit: David Daniels © Robert Recker licensed to Virgin ClassicsHandel’s Radamisto has an improbable plot (although average by Baroque opera standards) which can make it difficult to stage. The most recent staging in London was the ENO production in 2010, which had a largely abstract setting.
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22-Jan-2013
Theater an der Wien
Radamisto at the Theater an der Wien: A bit fishy
Image credit: Florian Boesch © Monika RittershausWhen the Theater an der Wien’s in-house magazine featured an article about costumes created by none other than Christian Lacroix for this new production of Radamisto, I was intrigued by the pictures, but also a bit nonplussed by the idea that his gowns had been hand-painted in order to illustrate the different levels of Radamisto’s nightmare.
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7-Oct-2010
The London Coliseum
ENO scores another winner in Radamisto
Image credit: Clive BardaHandel’s opera Radamisto received a welcome staging at the English National Opera last Thursday, following on from their successful productions of Agrippina and Partenope in recent years. First performed at the King’s Theatre Haymarket in 1720, Radamisto was the work with which Handel launched his new opera company Royal Academy of Music (nothing to do with the college of the same name) and it was immediately revived in subsequent seasons. (This production is based on the revised version).
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