Handel's Ariodante

This year’s collaboration between the Royal College of Music and the London Handel Festival offers the opportunity to see Handel’s only opera set in the United Kingdom, Ariodante.

The first of Handel’s operas to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in 1735, it follows the budding romance of Prince Ariodante and Princess Ginevra of Scotland. A happy ending is put in jeopardy, however, when Polinesso decides he wants Ginevra, and the crown, for himself.

Laurence Cummings and James Bonas return to conduct and direct a line-up of outstanding young singers in one of the highlights of the operatic year.