Handel: Rinaldo - Festival della Valle d'Itria (2018)

Plot Summary

Handel’s Rinaldo was presented at the 2018 Festival della Valle d’Itria in its rare Neapolitan version of 1718, reconstructed from historical sources by musicologist Giovanni Andrea Sechi. Created in Naples by Leonardo Leo and other composers after the opera’s success in London, this version incorporates additional music, comic characters and intermezzi, and was performed in modern times for the first time. Fabio Luisi conducted the baroque ensemble La Scintilla, with Teresa Iervolino as Rinaldo and Carmela Remigio as Armida. Giorgio Sangati’s colourful, rock-inspired production transformed the protagonists into pop-culture figures, including Rinaldo as Freddie Mercury and Armida as Cher.

Full Cast & Characters

Carmela Remigio

Armida

Francisco Fernàndez-Rueda

Goffredo

Loriana Castellano

Almirena

Teresa Iervolino

Rinaldo

Francesca Ascioti

Argante

Dara Savinova

Eustazio

Valentina Cardinali

Lesbina

Dielli Hoxha

Araldo di Argante

Simone Tangolo

Nesso

Kim-Lillian Strebel

Uno Spirito in forma di Donna

Ana Victória Pitts

Mago Cristiano

Director & Crew

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