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Polite pastoral: Handel's Tolomeo from Baroque Encounter
Handel: Tolomeo; Carmen Lasok, Glenn Kesby, Lucy Thomas, John Lofthouse, director: Christopher Tudor, conductor: Asako Ogawa; Baroque Encounter at St John's Smith SquareReviewed 16 September 2023A production given in period style that never quite managed to break out of the decorative pastoral entertainment and demonstrate the underlying drama of Handel's operaPremiered in 1728, Handel's Tolomeo was the last opera he would write for the great triumvirate of singers, castrato Senesino and sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. Handel would revive it in the 1730s, but its modern performance history is rather sparse. English Touring Opera did it in 2006 (revived 2009, see my review) and its best claim to fame, rather bizarrely, is that composer Arthur Somervell adapted on of the arias from the opera as the song Silent Worship.The opera made a welcome return to the London stage when Baroque Encounter performed it at St John's Smith Square on Saturday 16 September […]
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