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	Rodelinda -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rodelinda is an Italian (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera by (additional info and facts about George Frideric Handel) George Frideric Handel.
		Like Handel's other works in the (additional info and facts about opera seria) opera seria genre, Rodelinda fell into oblivion for two hundred years.
		However, since the late 1950s, it has been revived regularly and has become part of the (additional info and facts about standard operatic repertoire) standard operatic repertoire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rodelinda.htm (120 words)

	The Canadian Opera Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Queen Rodelinda believes her husband dead, unaware that he is hiding in the crypt of the Lombard kings, waiting for a chance to rescue her and their young son, Flavio.
		Rodelinda kneels at the tomb, expressing her sorrow and seeking comfort in the King’s likeness engraved on his tomb.
		Rodelinda embraces her husband and son, and Bertarido decrees that there shall be celebrations in every part of the kingdom.
	www.coc.ca /performances/rodelinda_synopsis.php (1039 words)

	Handel, George Frideric: Rodelinda. English Synopsis.
		Rodelinda threatens Garibaldo that she will demand that he be beheaded as a gift to mark her marriage.
		Grimoaldo's happiness on learning that Rodelinda has agreed to marry him is soon marred when she demands that he should kill her son Flavio first, as she cannot be the mother of the rightful heir to the throne and the wife of the usurper at the same time.
		Rodelinda tries to protect him by insisting that he is not her husband, but Grimoaldo has his rival taken prisoner and threatens to have him killed.
	www.jan-billington.com /christofellis/operas-synopses/handel-rodelinda.shtml (861 words)

	Andreas Scholl Rodelinda Review
		Rodelinda dominates the whole scene but you can see, suddenly, Grimoaldo's face distorted with dismay and a glimmer of humanity shines through the arrogant mask.
		If there is love like the one shared by Rodelinda and Bertarido, stronger than death and woes, and if there is music that makes it accessible and sharable by everyone, then this is music to raise your head and make you shed blissful, thankful tears for having the chance to enjoy such beauty.
		Rodelinda was one of those perfect nights at the theater that only come around a few times a year.
	www.andreasschollsociety.org /Rodelinda_Review.htm (4705 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2004-05 Broadcasts
		ACT I. In the Royal Palace in Milan, Rodelinda, wife of the King Bertarido, presumed dead in an invasion by the usurper Grimoaldo, laments the loss of her husband and kingdom.
		When she leaves, Grimoaldo complains to Garibaldo that his peace is disturbed equally by Rodelinda's scorn and by the anger of Bertarido's sister, Eduige, to whom he is betrothed.
		Rodelinda exacts a price for her capitulation: she will marry Grimoaldo only if he first kills her son with his own hand before her eyes.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaSynopsis.cgi?id=98&language=1 (863 words)

	Rodelinda Synopsis
		Rodelinda takes back her son, but to the shock of Bertarido and Unulfo, appears to give in quickly to Grimoaldo's desire to marry her.
		Rodelinda tells Garibaldo that her first demand as queen will be his head; Bertarido is heartbroken at her willingness to marry Grimoaldo.
		Rodelinda confirms to Grimoaldo that she will marry him, but only if he murders her son before her eyes; she cannot be both the wife of a usurper and mother of the rightful king.
	www.cambridgeopera.org /rodelinda_synopsis.htm (3680 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Review: 'Rodelinda' at Met is masterpiece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Frideric Handel's "Rodelinda" was a huge success at its London premiere in 1725, but it soon vanished from the stage and -- like the composer's three dozen other operas -- languished unperformed for nearly 200 years.
		When the opera begins, Bertarido is believed dead, and Grimoaldo is plotting to marry Rodelinda, but it turns out the deposed monarch is alive and hoping to reunite with his wife and young son.
		She hit her stride in Act 2 with a ravishing performance of the aria "Ritorna, o caro" as she awaited her reunion with Bertarido (countertenor David Daniels) then joined him in a meltingly beautiful account of the duet that closes the act before he is led off to prison.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/12/03/review_rodelinda_at_met_is_masterpiece (613 words)

	At The Opera 23/01/2005: Rodelinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gundeberto was killed in the battle and Bertarido vanished, leaving his queen, Rodelinda, and a young son, Flavio, in the power of the victorious ally, Grimoaldo.
		Act I: Rodelinda and her son are being held in the palace in Milan.
		Rodelinda appears with her child and reassures Eduige that her son’s future is her greatest concern.
	www.abc.net.au /classic/opera/s1384758.htm (892 words)

	SFist: SFist Goes To The Opera: Rodelinda
		Rodelinda is a Baroque-era opera written in 1725 by George Friederic Handel (you may remember him from such hits as The Hallelujah Chorus).
		Rodelinda is the queen of Naples, who has just been told that her husband, King Bertario, has been found dead.
		Rodelinda is the queen of Naples, who has just been told that her husband, King Bertarido, has been found dead.
	www.sfist.com /archives/2005/09/19/sfist_goes_to_the_opera_rodelinda.php (1039 words)

	Handel's 'Rodelinda' scores Met premiere - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Rodelinda" is that perfect commixture of lyricism and drama that marks Handel as the greatest composer for the stage between Monteverdi and Mozart.
		"Rodelinda" was the first Handel opera staged in the 20th century, and since it was impossible to cast the castrato parts as Handel intended, these roles were generally assigned to a woman or a countertenor as the role of Bertarido has been given Daniels.
		Rodelinda, thinking at last that her husband is dead, agrees to marry Grimoaldo to save her son's life, but when Bertarido returns to the Milanese court in disguise, Grimoaldo's machinations are thrown into disarray, enabling Rodelinda to remain faithful to her husband.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20050106-071233-2613r.htm (665 words)

	San Francisco Examiner: Entertainment
		George Frideric Handel's "Rodelinda," had its San Francisco Opera premiere Saturday night at the War Memorial Opera House, 280 years after it was first heard in London.
		"Rodelinda" is not only a more mature story, it is better cast, produced and conducted than its predecessor.
		Rodelinda has eight arias that explore her character, from bereft spouse to wily feminist politician.
	www.sfexaminer.com /articles/2005/09/19/entertainment/20050919_en01_opera.txt (506 words)

	Rodelinda - Review - Anthony Tommasini - Opera - New York Times
		But at the center of this tale is the story of a tenaciously loyal wife, Queen Rodelinda, and that tale of marital devotion gets lost amid the Mafia clichés, right down to the gangsters carrying machine guns in violin cases.
		As this production begins, Rodelinda, convinced that her beloved husband, Bertarido, has been abducted and murdered, is languishing in misery and fending off the advances of the usurper, Grimoaldo, who wants to marry her, claim the throne and ward off her young son.
		The soprano Catherine Naglestad was a rich-voiced and vulnerable Rodelinda.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/01/arts/music/01rode.html?ex=1285819200&en=9be96c6a48e83c90&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (635 words)

	‘Rodelinda’ Makes Her Met Debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She has been on a Handel jag lately, as evidenced by her new album of Handel arias, with this very same Harry Bicket, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
		In “Rodelinda,” it is Bertarido who has “Dove sei,” and Mr.
		“Rodelinda” will be performed again December 6, 15, 22 and 27 and January 6 at 7:30 p.m.; December 11 and 18 at 8 p.m.; and January 1 at 1 p.m (Lincoln Center, 212-362-6000).
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/12/03&ID=Ar01901 (777 words)

	classical music - andante - director's opera can work
		Rodelinda's libretto is unusually serviceable by Handelian standards, revolving around the missing-and-presumed-dead Bertarido and the pressure being put on his wife, Rodelinda, to marry the leader of a rival political faction.
		The point is not to exchange one "type" for another, but to provide a window into the emotional depths of the characters, as Handel constructs their inner lives aria by aria.
		This Rodelinda, in that regard, was successful with remarkable consistency — all the more so in this revival: The cast had relaxed its highly colored style (big gestures, bugged eyes) that resembled silent-movie melodrama in 1998.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16284&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (1190 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Handel - Rodelinda: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rodelinda, one of the triumvirate of classic Handelian operas of the mid-1720s, is a classic of psychological action and shows Handel at his best as an interpreter of human drama and emotion.
		Anna Caterina Antonacci was utterly at ease in the anguished part of the distraught queen Rodelinda, mourning the loss of her husband Bertarido (Andreas Scholl, making his stage debut) and fighting off the attentions of the victorious dictator Grimoaldo (Kurt Streit).
		Streit plays the part of Grimoaldo as a noble conqueror, guilty over his victory but unable to contain his passion for Rodelinda, though capable of nobility at the end when his life is saved by Bertarido.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RJB5 (473 words)

	Handel: Rodelinda insights
		"Rodelinda is one of Handel's finest operas, and it has not received a recording that I enjoy listening to," says conductor Alan Curtis.
		Simone Kermes was chosen specifically because her fiery temperament is very different from the saintly, dignified figure of the faithful wife.
		Rodelinda was another landmark in her career when she sang the part of Bertarido at Glyndebourne last year.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insights.htms?ID=curtis-rodelinda (974 words)

	Rodelinda - New York Magazine Classical Music Review
		In Rodelinda herself, Handel has created one of his most affecting, musically radiant heroines, a woman whose devotion and sense of responsibility give her an ability to reach out and change the lives of not only her wronged husband and child but everyone around her.
		Rodelinda is sometimes mistaken for a soprano vehicle and presented as such, but fortunately not here.
		Although she does have eight arias that explore her full character, Rodelinda is really just one member of this ensemble chamber drama, and in that respect, Renée Fleming’s demure portrait fits right in.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/10652 (960 words)

	Brilliant, Starlit Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But their new production of Handel’s “Rodelinda” on December 6 was of festival quality, brilliantly prepared and boasting a superstar cast that included David Daniels and Renée Fleming.
		But her micromanagement of Rodelinda’s music, inflecting every single word and note, robs her of the ability to sing a true legato, and, ironically, veils the sound to the point that her Italian is almost completely inscrutable.
		This “Rodelinda” ran only a minute or two shorter than an uncut “Tannhäuser.” An example of Bicket’s good taste—and perhaps of his negotiating skills—was the consistency of style of his singers’ ornamentation, idiomatic yet appropriate to the individual voice.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_351/brilliantstarlitnight.html (909 words)

	MDT - 4775391, Archiv CD
		Rodelinda was greeted as a masterpiece when it was premiered in London in 1725 and is still one of the top three most-performed operas by Handel.
		It is based on Pertharite, an obscure tragedy by Corneille, and Handel’s music for the soprano (Rodelinda), castrato alto (Bertarido) and tenor (Grimoaldo) is among his finest.
		There is a ravishing duet for the married couple, with hardly a weak number for the supporting cast.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/4775391.htm (533 words)

	George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the 1960s, with the revival of interest in baroque music and original instrument playing styles, interest has revived in Handel's Italian operas, and many have been recorded and performed onstage.
		Of the fifty he wrote between 1705 and 1738, Alcina (1735), Ariodante (1735), Orlando (1733), Rinaldo (1711, 1731), Rodelinda (1725), and Serse (also known as Xerxes) (1738) stand out and are now performed regularly in opera houses and concert halls.
		Arguably the finest, however, is Giulio Cesare (1724) which, thanks to its superb orchestral and vocal writing, has entered the mainstream opera repertoire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georg_Friedrich_H%c3%a4ndel (1063 words)

	HANDEL Rodelinda 3984-23024-2 [RH]: Classical DVD Reviews- October 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Handel’s Rodelinda was written for the same cast who sang in the premiere of his opera Tamerlano; in fact Handel produced a trio of masterpieces (Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano and Rodelinda) in under twelve months.
		Given the central role of Rodelinda and Bertarido’s relationship and the directness with which Handel portrays it, it would be possible to imagine a production of the opera which told the story in a relatively straightforward fashion.
		For all his sensitive characterisation of Rodelinda and Bertarido’s plight, this desire to introduce a comic element into the sub-character’s plotting means we can’t take the opera quite seriously enough.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Oct05/Handel_Rodelinda_3984230242.htm (1390 words)

	Rodelinda
		Rodelinda's improbable plot, of warring kings and desperate lovers, is essentially both timeless and place-less, thus offering a blank slate upon which a director can exercise his imagination.
		But to some extent all performances suffered by comparison to Emma Bell's, whose Rodelinda was exceptional: her graceful stage presence delighted the eye, while her formidable singing - by turns emotional and agile, powerful then exquisitely delicate - astounded the ear.
		A bit more rehearsal might not go amiss in places, and some of the "business" during arias really does need changing: the singers looked frequently as if they had been squeezed uncomfortably into actions which were designed with other performers in mind.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/opera/rod.htm (547 words)

	San Francisco Opera :: Rodelinda
		Rodelinda’s husband, the King, has been kidnapped and is presumed dead.
		His usurper aspires to take the throne and possess Rodelinda, using her son as a pawn.
		Torn between loneliness and faithfulness, Rodelinda must struggle to remain true to her heart.
	sfopera.com /operaspotlight.asp?operaseasonid=236 (170 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Handel: Rodelinda [Box set]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the star-studded, and romantic, accounts of Rodelinda of the past, including Joan Sutherland as the heroine, and Janet Baker as Eduige, this is the first British historically informed account of Handel's psychological and passionate drama.
		This is a slightly disappointing reading of this dramatic work, precisely because it came not out of a staging of the work, but a number of concert performances, and one gets the sense of a 'concert in dress' here, with 'safe' tempi being struck and everything played 'nicely'.
		Adrian Thompson is a convincing tyrant Grimoaldo, and Chris Purves a blustering Garibaldo who seeks at the end to betray his master and marry Bertarido's sister Eduige, though foiled at the end by Bertariso himself.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007TKL (963 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Rodelinda, Glyndebourne
		He then returns, disguised, to spy on his "widow" Rodelinda to test her fidelity.
		In the most important scene in the work, meanwhile, Rodelinda bids Grimoaldo to reveal his infamy to the entire world by killing her son in public.
		Being a coward, he can't do it - but for one brief moment, Rodelinda, in gambling with the life of her child, has equalled him in monstrosity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/review/0,1169,1239260,00.html (313 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bolcom’s “A Wedding” at Chicago Lyric, and Handel’s “Rodelinda” at the Met.
		First of all, he plays “Rodelinda” absolutely straight, skipping the campy antics that other directors impose on Handel in the name of saving Baroque convention from itself.
		Renée Fleming, who used her star power to bring “Rodelinda” to the house, comfortably inhabited the taxing title role, supplying acres of warmth and nuance without drawing attention from her co-stars.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music?050103crmu_music (1347 words)

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		It is a love story about Rodelinda and her husband Bertarido, whom she believes to be dead but is eventually reunited with.
		This recording of Rodelinda is an historical document made during the revival of the music of Handel during the inter-war years.
		It was made by the German radio on 78 rpm records of four minutes each in 1938 under Carl Leonhardt, former music director of the Stuttgart National Theatre.
	gfhandel.org /reviews/hwv019leonhardt.htm (565 words)

	New Statesman: Handel: Rodelinda. - Broomhill Festival, Kent, England - opera reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The statuesque pose is struck, the chair is sat in, the wall is leaned against: though there is wit, there is little action.
		For anyone learning the art of the lyric stage the benefit will be great; to work in such a place with a respected director such as Miller, so much the greater.
		The soprano Sophie Daneman, singing Rodelinda, and the small but agile counter-tenor Daniel Taylor, as Barbarida, use the theatre to their great profit.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4296_v125/ai_18595119 (1134 words)

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