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Thurs 3 Dec 7pm | Sat 5 Dec 2pm | Sun 6 Dec June 5pm | Tues 8 Dec 7pm | Wed 9 Dec 7pm
City Recital Hall Sydney
In this magical tale of chivalry and cunning, the knight Rinaldo battles the scheming sorceress Armida to rescue his beloved Almirena. This was the first Italian opera ever written for the London stage, and it catapulted the young Handel to fame and fortune with its brilliant display of arias, duets and orchestral effects, by turns ravishing and thrilling.
Countertenor Jake Arditti, who last wowed us as Nero in The Coronation of Poppea (2017), returns to dazzle again as the heroic Rinaldo. Emma Pearson (Athalia, 2018) brings her golden and wonderfully flexible soprano to the evil sorceress Armida and Carlo Vistoli (Artaserse, 2018) brings his beautifully burnished countertenor tones to the role of Goffredo. Multiple Helpmann Award-winner Taryn Fiebig returns to Pinchgut to delight us in the role of Almirena.
Rinaldo is an undeniable show-stopper, with sublime arias, lush instrumentation and high drama. Experience the joy of Handel at his best, brought to life by one of the best early music companies in the world. This will be a performance not to be missed.
Due to the lasting impacts of COVID-19, we regret to announce the postponement of our performances of Handel’s Rinaldo.
View the full statement regarding this postponement here.
Rinaldo was scheduled to perform at City Recital Hall from 3 - 9 December 2020.
We understand how disappointing it can be hearing this news, but rest assured, we plan to program Handel’s much-loved masterpiece into a forthcoming season.
If you currently hold tickets to our postponed concert performances of Rinaldo, you will receive an e-mail with options for those tickets shortly.
Handel Rinaldo
Sung in Italian with English surtitles
This performance will run for approximately 3 hours including an interval.
There will be a talk about the history of the piece 45 minutes before each performance on level 3, City Recital Hall.
Jake Arditti - "... show-stealing riches of vocal colour and stage presence"
DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
"Carlo Vistoli was magnificent, and his is the most beautiful countertenor voice I have heard on stage..."
BACHTRACK
"...the sweetest, most clearly coloured singing of the evening came from Taryn Fiebig ...
whose voice has an almost ideal mixture of fresh brightness, golden clarity and warmth."
PETER McCALLUM, SYDNEY MORING HERALD
"Handel’s calling card Rinaldo still opening doors three centuries on"
BACHTRACK
Jake Arditti Rinaldo
Emma Pearson Armida
Taryn Fiebig Almirena
Carlo Vistoli Goffredo
Wade Kernot Argante
Erin Helyard conductor
Louisa Muller director
Simone Romaniuk designer
Matthew Marshall lighting designer
Portrait of George Frideric Handel, by Philip Mercier, c 1730
Born on 23 February 1685 in Halle, Germany, Handel grew up under the watchful eyes of his parents; while his mother nurtured his musical gifts, his father tried to dissuade him from pursuing the dubious occupation of a musician. Following brief law studies at the local university, Handel travelled to Hamburg, where he scraped a living as a back-desk violinist at the opera house and composed his first opera Almira. By late 1706 he decided to travel independently to Italy, where he composed church, secular and theatre music for illustrious patrons in Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice; he also met numerous Italian composers who significantly influenced his work, such as Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, his son Domenico Scarlatti, Giacomo Perti, Bernardo Pasquini, Francesco Gasparini, Antonio Caldara and many others.
Rinaldo Abandoning Armidaf rom 'Gerusalemme Liberata' by Torquato Tasso (1544-95)
Rinaldo is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on an outline by Aaron Hill after Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata; London, Queen’s Theatre, 24 February 1711 (revised version, London, King’s Theatre, 6 April 1731). Pinchgut Opera will be performing the earliest version- the 1711. Rinaldo features the famous soprano aria ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’.
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