Handel: Rinaldo - Festival della Valle d'Itria
Directed by Fabio Luisi
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Handel’s Rinaldo was presented at the 2018 Festival della Valle d’Itria in its rare Neapolitan version of 1718, reconstructed from historical sources by musicologist Giovanni Andrea Sechi. Created in Naples by Leonardo Leo and other composers after the opera’s success in London, this version incorporates additional music, comic characters and intermezzi, and was performed in modern times for the first time. Fabio Luisi conducted the baroque ensemble La Scintilla, with Teresa Iervolino as Rinaldo and Carmela Remigio as Armida. Giorgio Sangati’s colourful, rock-inspired production transformed the protagonists into pop-culture figures, including Rinaldo as Freddie Mercury and Armida as Cher.
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Cast
Carmela Remigio
Armida
Francisco Fernàndez-Rueda
Goffredo
Loriana Castellano
Almirena
Teresa Iervolino
Rinaldo
Francesca Ascioti
Argante
Dara Savinova
Eustazio
Valentina Cardinali
Lesbina
Dielli Hoxha
Araldo di Argante
Simone Tangolo
Nesso
Kim-Lillian Strebel
Uno Spirito in forma di Donna
Ana Victória Pitts
Mago Cristiano