Opera Theatre Company was proud to fly the Irish flag at
Buxton Opera Festival and represent Handel in the 250th anniversary year of his death. The revival of our
2007 production of
Orlando was warmly received by sold-out houses for each of its three performances.
“Annilese Miskimmon, directing, takes more than one cue from Handel and his adaptation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. In the 16th, 18th and 21st centuries, unrequited love is, indeed, as destructive as war. And the sight of a soldier unmanned by his return to civilian life is painfully and wonderfully lamented in Handel’s musical depicton of Orlando’s madness. At this point, Miskimmon’s production comes into its own. After an injection of morphine, red petals from the giant poppies that have formed the forest of Act II fall slowly down on Orlando. And the period-instrument orchestra of the Opera Theatre Company, Dublin, play, under Christian Curnyn, as exquisitely as they have done all evening.”
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