Hints and tips:
...Robert Carter (aka Olga Supphozova) has been delivering the same jokes for 27 years but I still laugh out loud....
...The show has become a countertenor extravaganza, with three of them in one scene, including Tim Mead’s commanding Goffredo and Patrick Terry as a rather weaker Eustazio....
...The lackadaisical prince (Giovanni Goffredo as Sergey Legupski) whom the Swan Queen Odette (Robert Carter as ferocious Olga Supphozova) recruits to liberate her from her bird disguise does not understand...
...Robert Carsen suggests the latter. In his revived 2011 staging of Rinaldo, Handel’s opera is played out at one remove....
...It is to Robert Carsen’s credit that he has come up with something more imaginative, but do we really want to see Handel’s very adult opera played out by an unruly pack of adolescents in a school classroom...
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