The Triumph of Time and Truth by Händel, Πεμ 09 Ιουν 2022, Aπό (2022/2022), Σκηνοθετημένο από Carlos Wagner, αγωγός Hermann Bäumer, Samuel Hogarth, Staatstheater, Mainz, Germany

IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO (The Triumph of Time and Knowledge) by George Frideric Handel (1707) Do not burden yourself with worries, but enjoy the here and now, the pleasure advises. Everything beautiful in the world is fleeting, counters time. Accept your transience and turn to inner values, demands knowledge. The beauty is exposed to suggestions from all sides and starts to think. Should she continue to follow pleasure, or listen to time and knowledge that seeks to shift her gaze from superficial things to deeper values? In George Frideric Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno , four allegorical figures - beauty, pleasure, time and knowledge - enter into a music-theatrical competition and conduct a philosophical discourse on human life. Are beauty and pleasure reprehensible? Where is true happiness found? And what remains of us when we die? Handel composed his first oratorio, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno , at the age of twenty-two. In this early masterpiece, he skilfully combines operatic drama with baroque sensuality, giving the allegorical figures touchingly human traits