Handel at Versailles: Xerxes

About the Event

Hear this French premiere of Handel performed with spirit in a brilliant staging by Lars Rudolfsson.

In Xerxes, the King of Persia’s amorous adventures are the common thread in a plot full of political and comical twists (including cross‐dressing). Handel composed many of his most beautiful arias, expressing widely varied emotions, for this opera.

Casting:

Malena Ernman, Xerxès
Loa Falkman, Elviro
David DQ Lee, Arsamene
Kerstin Avemo, Atalanta
Hanna Husahr, Romilda
Ivonne Fuchs, Amastre
Jakob Zethner, Ariodate

Lars Rudolfsson, direction
Sara Larsson Fryxell, choreography

Ensemble Matheus
Jean‐Christophe Spinosi, conductor