Creative team
Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev
Director Robert Carsen
Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Cast includes
Rinaldo Elizabeth DeShong
Goffredo Avery Amereau
Almirena Giulia Semenzato
Argante Brandon Cedel
Eustazio Jakub Józef Orliński
Armida Kristina Mkhitaryan
A Christian Magus James Hall
“Robert Carsen’s witty and irreverent production comes roaring back to Glyndebourne with an all-new cast.
Christian knight Rinaldo loves Almirena, but she has been kidnapped by the scheming sorceress Armida. A magical battle of wits and wills ensues between Rinaldo’s Crusaders and the Saracen army, as the fate not just of two lovers but two nations hangs in the balance.
Carsen’s exuberant schoolroom staging brings out all the energy and excess in Handel’s first opera for the London stage. The composer’s colourful, tune-filled score – bright with brass fanfares and memorable arias including ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ – is one of his finest, sweeping the audience from laughter to love and back again, in this exotic, East-meets-West musical fantasy.”