Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Richard Croft, Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels, Michael Hart-Davis, Frode Olsen, William Christie, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson Peter Sellars
Description:
For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes George Frideric Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century, enemy-occupied Antioch - and, by resetting it in modern-day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution.
Actors:
Frode Olsen, Lorraine Hunt, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, William Christie, Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels, Richard Croft