There is no uncomfortable outdoor sex this time and the trickling Gothic fountain has been switched off. Designer Vicki Mortimer’s split-screen staging is still an occasional irritant in dividing attention between Donizetti’s opera in one half and what Mitchell envisages the women are up to in the other. It’s at its most distracting when we […]
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Rodelinda review: One of those evenings at the opera which sends everyone away smiling
When there two occur together, the result can be outstanding. Musically, Rodelinda is one of Handel’s finest works; plot-wise, it is a mess, even by the shambolic standards of most operas. Rodelinda is the wife of Bertarido whose kingdom has been usurped by the evile Grimoaldo. Bertarido has faked his own death, without telling his […]
