Nicholas Tamagna

Dans le rôle de l'impératrice, la mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato dirige la première au Met de cette histoire de tromperie et d'escroquerie de Haendel. Harry Bicket dirige la nouvelle production de Sir David McVicar, qui donne à cette comédie noire baroque une mise à jour moderne et politiquement chargée.

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.