Name: Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19
Start: 2011-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-12-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Soprano

Renée Fleming

Rodelinda

Contralto

Stephanie Blythe

Eduige

Countertenor

Andreas Scholl

King Bertarido

Iestyn Davies

Unulfo

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Tenor

Kobie van Rensburg

Grimoaldo

Bass

Shen Yang

Garibaldo

Conductor

Harry Bicket

Stage director

Stephen Wadsworth

Set designer

Thomas Lynch

Costume designer

Martin Pakledinaz

Lighting designer

Peter Kaczorowski

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’s 2004 Met premiere production. Rodelinda is faced with an impossible dilemma: With her husband Bertarido believed dead, she either has to marry the despised Grimoaldo (the elegant Joseph Kaiser), who has usurped her husband’s throne, or see him murder her son. But Bertarido (leading countertenor Andreas Scholl) is alive and eventually reclaims both throne and wife—and makes peace with his enemies. Stephanie Blythe is marvelous as Eduige, Bertarido’s sister, who is betrothed to Grimoaldo but turns against him. Baroque authority Harry Bicket conducts.

Rodelinda Händel

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading