Opera seria in three acts, HWV 7a (1711)
Libretto by Giacomo Rossi after a scenario by Aaron Hill, based on Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (1575)
In Italian with German and English supertitles
Musical director: Wolfgang Katschner
Stage producer & costume designer: Eugenio Monti Colla
Scenery, lighting: Franco Citterio
Goffredo: Johannes Wieners
Almirena: Johanna Falkinger
Rinaldo: Nicolas Tamagna
Eustazio: Benno Schachtner
Argante, Mago cristiano: Florian Götz
Armida: Danae Kontora
Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli
lautten compagney BERLIN
With the kind support of Orbis Real Estate GmbH
Please note: A bus transfer is available for the outbound and return journey. Tickets for this must be purchased separately. When booking the event, bus tickets will be offered to you as an option.
80/65/30 €
When men literally become marionettes, it opens up a surprisingly new perspective on Handel’s world of heroes – a world in which Baroque music and ancestral puppet theatre meld together in a unique way. For the first time, the Handel Festival is showing all three productions resulting from the artistic collaboration between lautten compagney BERLIN and their artistic director Wolfgang Katschner and the Milan-based puppet theatre Carlo Colla & Figli. Rinaldo opens the trilogy with a visually stunning play on perspectives and forms that already thrilled audiences back in 2011. Here, the abstract marionette figure becomes a broken symbol of the complex “images of men” in Baroque opera. At the same time, this production presents a conscious antithesis to the simultaneous new production at Halle Opera. A rare occasion to witness directly how very differently Handel’s male characters can be approached.