Name: Handel: Theodora
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the whole thing com[es] over like an unstaged concert performance…Luckily the solo singing – supported by the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and La Folia Barockorchester – is first rate...Jacquelyn... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Dec 2024
Catalogue No: NBD0184V
Label: Naxos

Handel: Theodora

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Initially a failure when first performed in London in 1750, Theodora has proved to be one of Handel’s most enduring and compassionate masterpieces – a work of introspective depth about the redemptive power of tolerance. Theodora’s determination to die in defence of her religious freedom offers her the promise of eternal salvation. In this acclaimed Viennese production, award-winning stage director Stefan Herheim contrasts Theodora’s self-sacrifice with the lack of spiritual direction of our own times. La Folia Barockorchester and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor are conducted by the acclaimed countertenor and Handel specialist Bejun Mehta.

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March 2025

the whole thing com[es] over like an unstaged concert performance…Luckily the solo singing – supported by the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and La Folia Barockorchester – is first rate...Jacquelyn Wagner’s Theodora makes the perfect lynchpin, purveying beauty and authority in every aria.

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