Rodelinda: Gran Teatre del Liceu
О событии
Counter‐tenor Bejun Mehta and soprano Lisette Oropesa take the leading roles in one of the season's key attractions
After King Bertarido, Rodelinda's husband, is given up for dead, Grimoaldo usurps the throne and plans to marry her. This plot of love, power, ambition and contrasting characters belongs to one of Handel's most undeservedly neglected works, which he wrote at the height of his London career. Claus Guth tells the tale through the imagination and fears of Flavio, Rodelinda and Bertarido's son, in a production that respects the spirit of the music and the story immortalized in George Frideric Handel's masterly score. This admirable synthesis of the spirit of early 18th‐century opera seria will be sung by a lavish cast headed by the great counter‐tenor Bejun Mehta, a veritable expert in this repertory.
Rodelinda
Dramma in three acts. Libretto by Nicola Haym. World premiere: 13/02/1725 at the King's Theatre in London. First performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Исполнители
Cast
RodelindaLisette Oropesa
BertaridoBejun Mehta
FlavioFabián Augusto Gómez
GrimoaldoJoel Prieto
Eduige Sasha Cooke
Unulfo Gerald Thompson
GaribaldoGianluca Margheri
Artistic profile
Conductor
Josep Pons
Stage director
Claus Guth
Set desig and costumes
Christian Schmidt
Coreography
Ramses Sigl
Lighting
Joachim Klein
Video
Andi A. Müller
Coproduction
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real (Madrid), Opéra de Lyon and Oper Frankfurt
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
