Handel - Theodora / Christie, Upshaw, Daniels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]

Handel - Theodora / Christie, Upshaw, Daniels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]
by Peter Sellars

Handel - Theodora / Christie, Upshaw, Daniels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]
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Actor: David Daniels (VIII), Dawn Upshaw, Frode Olsen, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Richard Croft (II)
Director: Peter Sellars
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 206 minutes
Release Date: 2000-03-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Kultur Video
Studio: Kultur Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Handel - Theodora / Christie, Upshaw, Daniels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]

Movie Review: Absolute masterwork
Summary: 5 Stars

Probably the most daring and exciting production by Peter Sellars. Certainly one of Haendel's masterworks, while little-known. Dawn Upshaw and Lorraine Hunt at their singing and acting best. An absolute must for music lovers, theater lovers and all people fascinated by the unique gift of Sellars to create contemporary overtones around a classical piece.

Summary of Handel - Theodora / Christie, Upshaw, Daniels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera [VHS]

For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard (sung by David Daniels)in fourth-century, enemy occupied Antioch - and, by resetting it in modern-day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spirtual resistance to tyranny and persecution. Cast:

Dawn Upshaw: Theodora
David Daniels: Dudymus
Frode Olsen: Valens
Richard Croft: Septimius
Lorraine Hunt: Irene


After an overture played on baroque period instruments, this opera about the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire opens with a televised press conference by the business-suited Roman governor of Antioch. This paradox epitomizes a bold and spectacularly successful interpretation that merges modern visuals with 18th-century music performed in period style.

The music (glorious, vintage Handel) is entrusted to William Christie, one of the most respected living conductors of early music. His phenomenal cast is musically and theatrically right on target. The staging, by Peter Sellars, has Roman legionaries garbed as a SWAT team with automatic weapons. The Roman governor is a totally political animal with a drinking problem. Dawn Upshaw and the amazing David Daniels, Christian victims, are executed not in a pit of lions but strapped to tables for lethal injections.

This treatment not only gives dramatic impact to music that began life as an oratorio; it universalizes the subject into an indictment of any government that persecutes minorities. --Joe McLellan

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