A stunning opera production with spectacular stage images
Barrie Kosky's award-winning production of Handel's Saul is an operatic experience like no other, with sumptuous period costumes and picturesque tableaux.
Saul is probably the best opera Handel never wrote. On the title page he called it an oratorio, but the work has everything you would expect from an exuberant baroque opera.
Handel set to music the Old Testament tale of Saul, who becomes so jealous of the young David that he cracks and, like another King Lear, ends up in a madness of Shakespearean proportions.
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.
The star director of the Royal Theatre's popular production of Carmen, Barrie Kosky, has created a staging that features lots of dancing and costumes with wow effects, spectacular set pieces and an entire stage floor covered in flickering candles.
Saul is sung in English with Danish and English subtitles.
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