Rodelinda, Coliseum, London
Coliseum, London: ENO turns again to Handel, offering a new production by Richard Jones of a work considered one of the composer's finest. Like most Handelian plots, this is a complicated one. The setting is Lombardy in the 7th century, where the villainous Grimoaldo has usurped the throne of the rightful king, Bertarido; the latter has fled abroad, leaving behind his wife Rodelinda and his son Flavio and spread…