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Orlando

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from the Flanders
Opera, Antwerp,
Robert Carsen 's production of Handel's opera in three acts to a libretto after
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
Destroyed by conflicting demands of love and war, Orlando's reason is saved by the magician Zoroastro in a plot which is further complicated by a love triangle. Sung in Italian.
Flanders Opera SO, conductor Paul Dombrecht
Acts 1 and 2 8.30 Interval
Michael Oliver looks into
Handel's accounts for
Orlando and discusses why he stubbornly persisted in writing operas in Italian, despite their lack of favour and their financial uncertainty.
8.55 Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carsen
Conductor:
Paul Dombrecht
Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Orlando:
Patricia Bardon (contralto)
Angelica:
Lynne Dawson (sop)
Medoro:
Hilary Summers (contralto)
Dorinda:
Kathleen Brett(sop)
Zoroastro:
Christophe Fel (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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