Name: Orlando
Start: 2006-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2006-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Sadler's Wells

Organization

Conductor

Gary Cooper

Stage director

Alessandro Talevi

Set designer

Costume designer

Cordelia Chisholm

Video designer

Dick Straker

Finn Ross

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

William Towers

Orlando

Soprano

Rebecca Ryan

Angelica

Christopher Ainslie

Medoro

Joana Seara

Dorinda

Bass

Nicholas Warden

Zoroastro

Independent Opera

London

United Kingdom

Sadler's Wells

Orlando Händel

Public

Approved

Written in 1733, Orlando was the first of the three operas for which Handel drew on the Renaissance masterpiece Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, a verse epic chronicling the chivalric adventures of medieval French knights. Though Orlando is rarely performed, by comparison with Alcina and Ariodante, it is musically and dramatically the equal of both. Orlando is a fascinating ‘magic’ opera, brimming with some of Handel’s most glorious music and inventive stage imagery.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew