Carsen’s taken the plot of Handel’s 1711 opera - his first for the London stage - and transposed it into a 20th century classroom. Rinaldo is a schoolboy with a vivid imagination, who dreams up a ...

Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria. Rinaldo was ...

WHAT a glorious evening’s entertainment! Handel’s opera Rinaldo is packed with the most scintillating music, but the plot involving medieval warfare, magic and an evil sorceress who supposedly rides ...

A frankly daft Crusading plot is reworked as the cartoonish fantasies of a schoolboy. Bullied by his classmates and bored of his history lesson, he recasts the Crusades with himself as warrior-hero ...

Scene from Pacific Opera Victoria's production Rinaldo. Although the baroque music is unquestionably beautiful, there’s a problem with the plot of Handel’s opera Rinaldo. Simply put, the storyline is ...

A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

This opera was different from the other two. To begin with, it was produced by the Jerusalem Opera, established in 2011 to fill an opera vacuum in Jerusalem and promote Israeli artists, particularly ...

George Frideric Handel was the baroque era's master of the earworm. Take as evidence Minnesota Opera's new production of his opera, "Rinaldo." It's fairly bursting with lovely laments of love and ...

“Rinaldo” is a fun, funny, and inspiring show that is sure to delight audiences of all ages. The production features impressive choreography, stunning visuals, and a talented orchestra. Sometimes, a ...

Premiering in 1711, Handel’s “Rinaldo” was the first Italian-language opera written for the London stage, and it was an immediate success. After 1731, however, it fell out of favor — for a good two ...

When the curtain rose on Robert Carsen’s new staging of Handel’s Rinaldo, you could almost hear the audience’s low groan. Oh no, it’s going to be another of these weird productions. Not the lovely ...