| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Oct-2012 New Theatre | Welsh National Opera at the New Theatre, Oxford: Handel's Jephtha |
 and WNO Chorus - Credit Bill Cooper_9.jpg) Handel’s Jephtha is an oratorio, rather than an opera. However, the story is one of high drama and emotion, and thus the work lends itself easily to operatic adaptation. The oratorio relates the story of Jephtha from the Book of Judges, in which the exiled illegitimate son of Gilead, leader of the Israelites, vows to God that if he should be victorious in battle against the Ammonites, he will sacrifice as a burnt-offering the first person to greet him upon his return. He is indeed victorious, and his daughter Iphis runs out to welcome him.
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