A love letter to Händel

...The eagerly awaited premiere of the Handel opera "Orlando" set the next highlight on Friday evening. The knight Orlando's love madness was brought to the stage in a special way. The decision in favor of Bernhard Forck as director and the artistic participation of Nico and the Navigators not only strengthened the profile of the Handel Festival Orchestra, but also provided an opportunity to apply new perspectives and narratives to Handel's operas. Many a purist was annoyed by this - after all, he did not want the "musically most magnificent of all Handel operas" (Winton Dean) to be given such a modern workshop character....