Rodelinda will come to the Royal Theatre for the first time, from 24 March to 5 April, in a new production of one of the best stage directors of the moment: Claus Guth, with musical direction by Ivor Bolton, one of the best specialists in the performance of this repertoire.
Off all the types of love described in opera librettos, the scarcest is precisely the most ritualized: conjugal love. Georg Friedrich Händel saw in the faithfulness of the queen of Lombardy to her husband a story that inspired him to compose what would be one of his most appreciated operas since its premiere in London in 1725.
