In “Saul,” the magnificent overture to George Frideric Handel’s 1739 oratorio opens on a dim, but not dark, hall. For several minutes, long enough for an exquisite oboe solo and virtuoso passage by ...
Just how much fun can you have at an oratorio about a Old Testament tale of jealousy, madness and death? Well, quite a lot as it happens at the return of Barry Kosky's remarkable production of ...
Ein alter Mann ist stets ein König Lear – as Goethe wrote, every old man is a King Lear, and it is Shakespeare’s patriarch, along with his Fool and his daughters, whose disintegration and downfall are ...
Barrie Kosky’s darkly subversive take first landed at Glyndebourne 10 years ago – then, as now, it featured Christopher Purves as the belligerent, mentally unstable King Saul and Iestyn Davies as ...
Barrie Kosky’s production of Handel’s Saul was one of the big hits of an exceptional Glyndebourne season this year, and it has been revived for the Tour by Donna Stirrup with such verve that it’s ...