G. F. Handel: Radamisto

Trinity College Chapel

A story of lust, intrigue, and reconciliation set in Classical Thrace with warring dynasties providing the characters

Handel's Radamisto draws on Tacitus' Annals to give us the story of Tiridate, a warlike king driven mad by love of the princess Zenobia, Tiridate's brave and patient wife Polissena, and the dashing prince Radamisto, and brings together some of the composer's greatest evocations of rage and pathos. The opera will be performed in elaborate costumes drawing on baroque costume and steampunk fashion, with a stylised, symbolic language of movement.