Handel: Rinaldo

Pe sings with agility, finesse and pathos as Rinaldo’s music requires…The Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino play with a sure sense of crisply detailed style. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

Release Date: 21st May 2021
Catalogue No: 37896
Label: Dynamic

Handel: Rinaldo

Raffaele Pe (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Goffredo), Francesca Aspromonte (Almirena), Andrea Patucelli (Argante), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
Federico Maria Sardelli

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Handel's masterpiece Rinaldo is based on Torquato Tasso's epic La Gerusalemme liberata, which tells the tale of the attempted seduction of the hero by the enchantress Armida against the backdrop of the First Crusade. Musicologists agree that Handel carried out a major cut-and-paste exercise with Rinaldo, as more than two thirds of his 1711 score was taken from earlier works. This particular production by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conceived in 1985 for Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, has since travelled to some twenty major opera houses worldwide. Putting aside practical cuts and a few displacements of musical numbers, its durable attraction lies in the gorgeous costumes and scenery, a stylish paragon of 'hyperbaroque' that deliberately avoids both literalism and cheap provocation. This lavish production was performed at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which was the first Italian theatre to re-open after the lockdown in 2020. The set design and direction were perfectly tailored to the health and safety requirements in force during the pandemic.

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August 2021

Pe sings with agility, finesse and pathos as Rinaldo’s music requires…The Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino play with a sure sense of crisply detailed style.

December 2021

Sardelli directs a stylish performance, drawing some fine playing from the modern instruments of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra…It is only right that this famous staging should have been preserved on film, and the production is here given added lustre by Pe’s splendid Rinaldo.

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