But the real discovery of the festival is the Berlin-based ensemble “Nico and the Navigators”. It calls this Handel-Pasticcio that it put together itself “Anaesthesia”: a poetic, highly aesthetic physical theatre with a decidedly intelligent musical arrangement courtesy of the Austrian musical ensemble “Franui”, whose inclusion of the dulcimer and saxophone lends totally new colours to Handel’s music, without distorting it. Simply enchanting.

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