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Tag Archives: London Handel Festival

Lost in the woods: Handel’s Giove in Argo at the Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music, with an enthusiastic and talented student cast, gave Giove in Argo a dramatic rebirth at the Britten Theatre. It was impossible not to enjoy the sheer musicality and talent before us, and John H. Roberts has put together an exquisite confection of sounds to indulge the Handel fan, who will have…

March 26, 2015 in Baroque, Opera.

Cut-and-shut Baroque: Handel’s pasticcio Catone in Utica at London Handel Festival

Like buses, you can wait many years to see a pasticcio, and then several come at once. Having only just reviewed the marvellous L’oracolo in Messenia by Vivaldi, I was next invited to Opera Settecento‘s Handel Catone in Utica, a pasticcio which had not been performed anywhere in the world for 283 years, in the…

March 18, 2015 in Baroque, Opera.

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