Music Review
Bringing Back the Baroque in a Revival Tailored to the Met
Rodelinda Renée Fleming is in the title role of this Metropolitan Opera production of Handel's work, in its second revival at the house.
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Published: November 15, 2011
The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rodelinda,” created in 2004 as a showcase for the soprano Renée Fleming, went a long way toward establishing Baroque opera — and with it, elements of period performance practice — as something more than a novelty item at the house. So it is fitting that as the Met prepares a grand antiquarian experiment — “The Enchanted Island,” a Baroque-style pastiche with music by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and others, to open on New Year’s Eve — the signal “Rodelinda” production should usher it in, in a revival that opened on Monday evening.
Renée Fleming Returns in ‘Rodelinda’ Opera - Review - NYTimes.com
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