Name: Rinaldo
Start: 2018-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palazzo Ducale

Organization

Festival della Valle d'Itria

Cantante

Controtenore

Teresa Iervolino

Rinaldo

Soprano

Loriana Castellano

Almirena

Carmela Remigio

Armida

Basso

Francesca Ascioti

Argante

Tenore

Francisco Fernández-Rueda

Goffredo

Dara Savinova

Eustazio

Simone Tangolo

Nesso

Valentina Cardinali

Una donna

Mimi

Kim-Lillian Strebel

Uno spirito

Victória Pitts

Mago cristiano

Dielli Hoxha

Un araldo

Direzione d'orchestra

Fabio Luisi

Regia

Giorgio Sangati

Scenografia

Alberto Nonnato

Costumi

Gianluca Sbicca

Luci

Paolo Pollo Rodighiero

Orchestra

La Scintilla

Martina Franca

Italia

Palazzo Ducale

Rinaldo by G. F. Handel/L. Leo, from Festival della Valle d'Itria, performed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, 2019. Directed by Giorgio Sangati, conductor Fabio Luisi, starring Carmela Remigio, Francesca Ascioti, Valentina Cardinali,Dara Savinova, Teresa Iervolino, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Loriana Castellano, Simone Tangolo, Dielli Hoxha, Ana Victória Pitts, Kim. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, French, Italian and Korean.

For the first time in modern times, Festival della Valle d'Itria stages the Neapolitan version of Händel's Rinaldo, a pastiche with a Mediterranean allure which Leonardo Leo assembled in 1718 and which was considered lost until a few years ago. The story behind this most rare opera is captivating: the score of Händel’s masterpiece was illegally brought to Naples by the castrato singer Nicolò Grimaldi, who first interpreted Rinaldo in London. Once in Italy, the work was rehashed by Leo as well as other local composers, who adapted it to the taste of the local Neapolitan public, adding some intermezzos and amusing characters.

 

Director Giorgio Sangati turns this work into a “ba-rock” opera set in the 1980’s, where the struggle between Christians and Turks becomes a battle between pop-rock singers (the Christians) and dark-metal ones (the Turks). These two factions represent two opposite perspectives on love and life.

 

Conductor Fabio Luisi is at the head of the baroque Ensemble La Scintilla, a group of specialists in the baroque repertoire.

Crediti di rappresentazione (Cast e team di produzione )

Cast

Team creativo

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