Handel: Rinaldo - Festival della Valle d'Itria

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Handel: Rinaldo - Festival della Valle d'Itria (2018)

Directed by Fabio Luisi

Music · 3h 36m

Handel’s Rinaldo was presented at the 2018 Festival della Valle d’Itria in its rare Neapolitan version of 1718, reconstructed from historical sources by musicologist Giovanni Andrea Sechi. Created in Naples by Leonardo Leo and other composers after the opera’s success in London, this version incorporates additional music, comic characters and intermezzi, and was performed in modern times for the first time. Fabio Luisi conducted the baroque ensemble La Scintilla, with Teresa Iervolino as Rinaldo and Carmela Remigio as Armida. Giorgio Sangati’s colourful, rock-inspired production transformed the protagonists into pop-culture figures, including Rinaldo as Freddie Mercury and Armida as Cher.

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Cast

Carmela Remigio Armida
F
Francisco Fernàndez-Rueda Goffredo
L
Loriana Castellano Almirena Teresa Iervolino Rinaldo
F
Francesca Ascioti Argante
D
Dara Savinova Eustazio Valentina Cardinali Lesbina
D
Dielli Hoxha Araldo di Argante
S
Simone Tangolo Nesso
K
Kim-Lillian Strebel Uno Spirito in forma di Donna
A
Ana Victória Pitts Mago Cristiano

Crew

Director
Fabio Luisi
Writer
Georg Friedrich Händel

Details

Release date
2018-10-24
Runtime
3h 36m
Genres
Music
Original language
IT
Spoken languages
Italian
Countries
Italy
Production
Festival della Valle d’Itria