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Harry Bicket

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Lucy Crowe

Rodelinda

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Iestyn Davies

King Bertarido

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Eric Ferring

Grimoaldo

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

Unulfo

Contralto

Christine Rice

Eduige

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Brandon Cedel

Garibaldo

LA Opera

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The English Concert

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The English Concert: Rodelinda

Los Angeles

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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The English Concert: Rodelinda: Rodelinda Händel

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Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19

English

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Release date → May 2021
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Handel’s 1725 hit opera Rodelinda was written for the greatest voices of its day and is performed here by some of today’s finest, as The English Concert and artistic director Harry Bicket’s acclaimed concert cycle of Handel operas appears for the first time on Linn. Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies are the devoted partners Rodelinda and Bertarido, heading a cast packed with exactly the sort of vocal star-power Handel would have expected, including Joshua Ellicott, Tim Mead, Brandon Cedel and Jess Dandy. Both Davies and Crowe have won acclaim for their performances in these roles: BBC Music Magazine wrote, ‘Iestyn Davies stole the show with aria after aria of heavenly purity and ardour’, whilst BachTrack commented, ‘Lucy Crowe gave a brilliant performance … Her singing, firmly centred, agile and sparking with temperament, was a triumph.’ The English Concert’s reputation for combining urgency, passion and fire with precision, delicacy and beauty will ensure their forthcoming series of Handel operas will become an essential part of Linn’s catalogue. The English Concert will be recording Handel’s La resurrezione in 2021.

The all-stars of Baroque opera are back!

The English Concert, a globe-crossing period instrument orchestra led by conductor Harry Bicket, returns to Los Angeles for a single not-to-be-missed concert performance. This masterpiece of baroque opera is full of brazenly amoral characters doing dastardly deeds. As the men surrounding her plot to take the throne, the grieving queen Rodelinda tries to stay one step ahead of them all, while remaining faithful to the memory of her husband, presumed dead. (Key word: “presumed.“)

Don't worry: Handel’s endlessly inventive score makes sense of it all. It’s one of his greatest operas—and he wrote dozens of them, so that’s saying something.

The English Concert: Rodelinda by Händel, From (2023/2023), Conductor Harry Bicket, LA Opera, Los Angeles, United States

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