Handel's Rinaldo: Vienna Kammeroper

About the Event

Full of musical fireworks and dramatic brio, Rinaldo was Handel's most often performed opera during the composer's lifetime. Find out why at the Vienna Kammeroper…

It was partly because of Rinaldo's spectacular 1711 success at London's Haymarket Theater that Handel chose the British capital as his adopted home. The opera, his first for the London public, contains all of the elements -- war, love, kidnapping, magic, and eventual triumph -- that make for an evening of pulsating yet elegant excitement.

Opera seria in three acts (1711/1731)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto by Giacomo Rossi after Aaron Hill

In Italian with German surtitles

Conductor: Rubén Dubrovsky
Director: Christiane Lutz
Set design: Christian Tabakoff
Costume design: Natascha Maraval
Rinaldo: Jake Arditti
Goffredo: Vladimir Dmitruk
Almirena: Gan‐ya Ben‐gur Akselrod
Argante: Tobias Greenhalgh
Armida:Natalia Kawalek‐Plewniak
Mago: Christoph Seidl
Orchestra: Bach Consort Wien