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Handel: Xerxes (Serse)

Handel: Xerxes (Serse)

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Drama   Comedy   Music   History
📜 Overview: Xerxes is one of Handel’s latest and most frequently performed operas, famous for its marvelous opening aria ‘Ombra mai fu’. At the centre of the confusing tragicomedy, very loosely based upon the life of Xerxes I of Persia, is a powerful and lovesick royal eccentric, King Xerxes. Rising opera star Gaëlle Arquez in the title role of Xerxes ‘scintillates with her nimble, luminous mezzo-soprano’, singing ‘irresistibly beautiful, impassioned, furious – but never mean’ (Frankfurter Rundschau). Frankfurt’s excellent Opera and Museum Orchester contributes ‘all sorts of refinements’ to this ‘musical smash hit’ (Deutschlandfunk) and ‘In Frankfurt Tilman Köhler ensures a three-hour short abundant and furious banquett … a great evening of opera’ (Deutschlandfunk).
🌏 Languages Available: Italian
📆 Date Released: 2018-09-14
⌚ Running Time: 180 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 0.0

Beloved Cast

Louise Alder original image
Atalanta
Louise Alder
Gaëlle Arquez original image
Xerxes
Gaëlle Arquez
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner original image
Amastre
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Brandon Cedel original image
Ariodate
Brandon Cedel
Thomas Faulkner original image
Elviro
Thomas Faulkner
Elizabeth Sutphen original image
Romilda
Elizabeth Sutphen
Lawrence Zazzo original image
Arsamene
Lawrence Zazzo

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