New Belgrade Opera and the Opera and Theatre Madlenianum are to meet the need for baroque repertoire on domestic music scene in October and November this year with the premiere performance of the baroque opera Orlando, by the composer George Frideric Handel. Setting of the opera Orlando means a particular refreshing and the exclusivity for Belgrade music scene. The vocal ensemble consists of young, talented singers from the country and abroad, and the baroque orchestra on the historical instruments is conducted with cembalo by Predrag Gosta.
SUMMARY:
The famous warrior Orlando is torn between Venus and Mars, love and duty. He is madly in love with Angelica, who is in love with Medoro. Orlando is overwhelmed by jealousy. Without luck in love is also a shepherdess Dorinda, who Orlando does not return love to. Orlando’s passion towards Angelica becomes destructive, he loses his mind and in his madness he wants to kill Angelica and Medoro. The magician Zoroastro calms down passions of the enraged hero by his magic powers and returns him to the secure path of duty and sense.
