At the Opéra de Lille, Handel’s “Rodelinda” regains its full dramatic power in a production staged by Jean Bellorini and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm at the head of Le Concert d’Astrée. An intense Baroque drama now available to watch in streaming. 
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Premiered in London in 1725, Rodelinda is one of Handel’s most dramatic operas. At the Opéra de Lille in 2018, French stage director Jean Bellorini offers a reading seen through a child’s eyes, supported by a cast deeply experienced in the Baroque repertoire and the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm leading Le Concert d’Astrée, where the continuo becomes a true theatrical engine.
Rodelinda, the theatre of power
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