A spectacular opera production with spectacular stage images
Barrie Kosky's award-winning production of Handel's Saul is an opera experience in a class of its own, with lavish period costumes and picturesque tableaux.
Saul is probably the best opera Handel wrote. On the title page, he called it an oratorio, but the work has everything MON expect from an exuberant Baroque opera.
Handel the Old Testament story of Saul, who becomes so jealous of the young David that he cracks and, like King Lear, ends up in a madness of Shakespearean proportions, to music.
Saul is sung by English bass-baritone Christopher Purves and David by Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen. Concerto Copenhagen accompanies under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
Barrie Kosky, the star director behind the Royal Theater's popular production of Carmen, has created a staging that offers plenty of dance and costumes with wow effects, added to spectacular stage images and an entire stage floor covered with flickering candles.
Saul is sung in English with Danish and English surtitles.
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