Glyndebourne, Lewes: Robert Carson's sometimes silly but entertaining take on Handel's musically supreme fantasy opera returns to Glyndebourne for its first revival. Though packed with many of the composer's best arias, Rinaldo's libretto is a bit of a mess, a hasty bastardisation of Torquato Tasso's 1581 mythologising account of the First Crusade with crowd-pleasing romance and sorcery throw…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:58AM on August 11, 2014