This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done With its airy spaces and lively acoustic, James Gibbs’s 1720s church at ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1738, the statue of Handel as Orpheus, now in the V&A, was unveiled at Vauxhall’s Spring Gardens in London.
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