Agrippina, Zurich Opera

Agrippina, Zurich Opera

by | Mar 29, 2025 | Music, Uncategorized

by Fiona Hook Not every modernisation of a historical opera works, but Jetske Mijnssen’s successful transposition of Handel’s chunk of Roman history to modern-day New York is a reminder that human nature and the lust for power are eternal – it just takes...
Rinaldo, Glyndebourne

Rinaldo, Glyndebourne

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Music

Playground for Paladins by Fiona Hook Robert Carsen’s 2011 staging of Handel’s Rinaldo eschews both Handel’s patriotic subtext about the war England was then waging with France, and more contemporary echoes, in favour of a jolly romp taking place in the imagination of...