Possibly mythology’s most unfathomable character: Medea, the sorceress, betrayed by her husband Jason, takes revenge by offering the latter’s lover a poisoned dress and then killing her own children. Such a destiny, so often portrayed in the arts, could not but be embodied at the Opera. In...
In this 2018 performance of Handel’s 'Rinaldo,' the knight Rinaldo embarks on a quest to rescue his beloved Almirena from the sorceress Armida set during the first Crusades.
