Admeto 2009Göttingen International Handel Festival
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This was a fascinating staging of a Handel rarity, relocated to Samurai era Japan. The result was extremely effective,with choreographer Tadashi Endo shadowing the main characters as a form of doppelgänger death figure. Hercules brought some light relief, presented as an all-conquering Sumo wrestler.
The musical account, led by the once familiar figure of Nicholas McGegan, was uniformly excellent. While both sopranos gave moving performances, it was particularly good to be introduced to two new counter-tenors, whose achievements were much more than promising. Even better, Tim Mead and Andrew Radley were quickly snapped up by Scottish Opera to give us some more Handel performances.
