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George Frideric Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7

Overture

I, 1: Delle nostre fatiche

I, 1: Signor, gia dal tuo senno

I, 1: Questi saggi consigli

I, 2: Signor, che delle stelle

I, 3: Sibillar gli angui d'Aletto

I, 3: Goffredo, se t'arrise

I, 4: Infra dubbi di Marte

I, 5: Furie terribili

I, 5: Molto voglio, molto spero

I, 6: "Augelletti che cantate"

I, 6: Adorato mio sposo

I, 7: Cara sposa, amante cara, dove sei?

I, 8: Ch'insolito stupore

I, 8: Col valor, colla virtu

I, 9: Di speranza un bel raggio

II, 1: Siam prossimi al porto

II, 2: A quel sasso bramato

II, 3: Il vostro maggio de' bei verdi anni

II, 3: Qual incognita forza

II, 3: Signor, strano ardimento

II, 4: Armida dispietata

II, 4: "Lascia ch'io pianga"

II, 4: Ah! Sul bel labbro Amore

II, 5: Cingetemi d'allori le trionfali chiome

II, 6: Fermati!

II, 7: Crudel, tu ch'involasti

II, 8: Dunque i lacci d'un volto

II, 9: Riprendiam d'Almirena

II, 10: Vo' far guerra; e vincer voglio

III, 1: Quivi par che

III, 2: Sinfonia

III, 3: Mori svenata

III, 4: Sorge nel petto

III, 7: Bel paciere

III, 6: Al triompho del nostro furore

III, 8: Signor, l'oste nemica

III, 9: March

III, 9: Or la tomba in suon festante

III, 11: Battaglia

III, 12: Goffredo, ecco il superbo

III, 13: Vinto e sol della virtu

Handel's Rinaldo

Robert Carsen (stage director), Ottavio Dantone (conductor) — With Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida)...

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Cast

Robert Carsen — Stage director, lighting

Gideon Davey — Set and costume design

Peter van Praet — Lighting

Philippe Giraudeau — Choreographer

Sonia Prima — Rinaldo

Anett Fritsch — Almirena

Brenda Rae — Armida

Program notes

Handel’s Rinaldo—an opera in three acts first premiered at London’s Queen’s Theater in 1711—is brought to life in a thoroughly contemporary flavor in the Glyndebourne Festival’s 2012 production.

In 1710 Handel arrived in England to oversee the production of his first London opera, Rinaldo, which premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in Haymarket on February 24th, 1711, the day after his 26th birthday. A theatrical spectacular with arias included as a bonus, the plot focuses on the adventures of a knight on a crusade to rescue his love. The sunny and boisterous Rinaldo contrasts sharply with Handel’s mature operas like Ariodante or Alcina.

In 2011 Glyndebourne presented the opera for the first time. The production features a wildly originally staging by Robert Carsen that calls to mind the famous and beloved literary wizard, Harry Potter: Rinaldo is recast as a misfit student, outcast by his peers, who dreams of being a hero. The mixture of dream and reality, threaded through with contemporary references to J.K. Rowling’s magical world, ground Carsen’s Rinaldo in a remarkably modern world, one that is sure to delight and entrance its audiences!

Photo: © Bill Cooper - Glyndebourne Festival Opera

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