RODELINDA
October 20*, 24, 26, 28 at 7pm
October 22, 29 at 3pm
Performances in Italian with English supertitles
Running Time: Approx. 2 hours and 15 minutes
Opera by G.F. Handel, premiered at the King’s Theater in London, 1725
Direction and Production R.B. Schlather
With early music band Ruckus
Building on the extraordinary success of his production of Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein’s The Mother of Us All at Hudson Hall in 2017 (named one of the Best Classical Music Performances of the year by The New York Times), internationally acclaimed opera director R.B. Schlather returns to Hudson Hall with a new and dynamic production of Handel’s Rodelinda – a timeless tale about about love, power, loyalty, tyranny, grief, and ultimately, redemption.
CAST:
Keely Futterer, Rodelinda
Sun-Ly Pierce, Bertarido
Karim Sulayman, Grimoaldo
Teresa Buchholz, Eduige
Douglas Williams, Garibaldo
Brennan Hall, Unulfo
SYNOPSIS:
A woman’s husband is missing, maybe dead. Her life as she knew it has disappeared. Villains invade her home, seeking to profit from her loss. To their surprise, she heroically overcomes her grief, defends her child and her home. After her husband’s dramatic reappearance, the evildoers are expelled, and marital order is restored. They begin again.
Teresa will be singing the role of Eduige, in a return collaboration with innovative director R.B. Schlather at Hudson Hall (Hudson, NY) where they had previously collaborated on Virgil Thomson’s “The Mother of Us All”.