#handel

#handel

The sheet is modest in size but immense in significance. Carefully inked across the page are the opening 20 bars of a fugue - not Mozart's own invention, but his transcription of a harpsichord work by George Frideric Handel, composed more than sixty years earlier. Mozart was 26 when he set to work on it in 1782-83, transforming Handel's keyboard fugue into the beginnings of a string quartet arrangement.

Handel's Rodelinda is one of the Baroque era's most emotionally compelling operas, showcasing a world where courage and constancy triumph over tyranny.

Kosky's revival of Handel's Saul is an engrossing representation of a king's descent, exploring moral dilemmas that resonate with contemporary audiences.