Musical direction: Dani Espasa
Staging: Louisa Proske
Set design: Kaspar Glarner
Soloists: Rafał Tomkiewicz (Amadigi), Franziska Krötenheerdt (Melissa), Serafina Starke (Oriana), Yulia Sokolik (Dardano), N.N. (Orgando) / Halle Handel Festival Orchestra
In Italian with German subtitles / Production of the Halle Opera as part of the Handel Festival
Organiser: Halle Theatre, Opera and Orchestra GmbH
65 / 55 / 45/ 30 / 25 €
The fifth opera written in Handel’s new home, London, Amadigi di Gaula, is an exuberantly inventive work with brilliant musical ideas full of youth, love and magic. The sorceress Melissa loves the knight Amadigi. But he loves Oriana, who in turn is coveted by Amadigi’s friend and rival Dardano. The four figures stumble around in a labyrinth of deceptive images and feelings and run the risk of losing not only their way, but above all themselves. Hurt and filled with hate, Melissa uses all her magical powers to destroy the inclination of Amadigi and Oriana for one another. She plots, lies, begs, flatters and threatens death and torture. But love is victorious in the end. In collaboration with the Halle Opera ballet corps, Louisa Proske stages the opera as a hallucinatory odyssey through the enigmatic realm of images of Kaspar Glarner’s imaginative scenic design.