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Scene from: Theodora

Composer: George Frederic Handel
Conductor: William Christie

This is the first production of a Handel work to be mounted by Glyndebourne in 30 years. For his 1996 staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century, enemy-occupied Antioch - and, by resetting it in modern-day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution.

"It is great Handel singing, but then musically and dramatically this production is flawless"
THE GUARDIAN

Awards: 1997 Banff Rockie Award For Best Performance Special. 1997 Evening Standard Ballet, Opera and Classical Music Award.

Cast: Theodora - Dawn Upshaw, Didymus - David Daniels, Valens - Frode Olsen, Septimius - Richard Croft, Irene - Lorraine Hunt.

Catalogue: 0630154812

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