RODELINDA

The fifth season of the Met Opera released exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor Theatres in November, with each production receiving rave reviews, and the next awe-inspiring opera audiences can look forward to is Rodelinda, composed by George Frideric Handel.

Renée Fleming returns to The Met: Live in HD in one of her greatest roles, the title character in Handel’s Rodelinda. In this Baroque showpiece, Fleming plays a queen who must fight treacherous enemies to keep her son safe and the memory of her exiled husband alive.

Handel’s score gives her the opportunity to sing some of the most beautiful and challenging arias in her extensive repertoire. The all-star supporting cast includes two of the world’s most prominent countertenors, Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies, as the exiled king Bertarido and his friend Unulfo; versatile mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the noblewoman Eduige; Joseph Kaiser as the usurper Grimoaldo; and Shenyang as Grimoaldo’s corrupt advisor, Garibaldo. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket, who led the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s fast-paced, fluid production, conducts. Deborah Voigt hosts the transmission.

“Our fifth season of opera has been widely successful and the last three productions have come out as part of the Top 10 Cinema Nouveau titles during their release weekend. These attendances are testament to the appeal of opera to our local audiences, and we are looking forward to releasing Rodelinda in December, and are confident it will be greatly received,” says Raksha Singh of Ster-Kinekor Theatres.

The running time of Rodelinda is approximately 4 hours and 15minutes, including two intermissions.

The opera productions can be seen at Cinema Nouveau at Gateway and Ster-Kinekor at Shelly Beach.

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