Handel: Rinaldo
Glyndebourne, 8th August 2019
Rotten Romans, the first film inspired by Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories books which have brought the past alive for decades of schoolchildren, opened in cinemas a fortnight ago. If they ever decide to tackle the Crusades in a sequel, they could do worse than look at Robert Carsen’s Glyndebourne production of Handel’s Rinaldo for inspiration. When a nerdy schoolboy – countertenor, naturally – is bullied, he drifts into a daydream where he leads a hapless bunch of Christians in battle against the Saracens. It’s a riotous staging that once again had the audience roaring with laughter.
Jakub Józef Orliński (Rinaldo)
© Robbie Jack
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