Overview

In Handel's oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (1707), the desire to live is at odds with the realisation of one's own mortality. In his early masterpiece, the composer was able to open up clear emotional spaces to the simultaneity of the incompatible. What does it mean to be alive - and what does it mean to demand to be fulfilled with this life? And who am I when the mirror only gazes at me in silence? In Handel's music the questions begin to float.

Top Cast

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Sarah Brady

La Bellezza

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Sunnyboy Dladla

Il Tempo

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Nina van Essen

Il Piacere

Nicholas Tamagna

Il Disinganno