Marc Audibet . Ariodante

Marc Audibet Costumes pour Ariodante / Wien
Sep 26Th 2008

About the event

In a co-production with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, the Theater an der Wien presents Händel's "dramma per musica" in three acts under the musical direction of Christophe Rousset (1735).

Händel's thirty-third opera, Ariodante, was written in the midst of the financial and artistic chaos that reigned during the "London opera war". In the face of intense competition from the King's Theatre Händel wrote one of his best operas for Covent Garden. The subject is taken from Ludovico Ariosto's epos Orlando furioso. The intrigue surrounding the knight Ariodante had inspired numerous composers and writers before Händel, including Shakespeare, who used the tale, albeit in humorous vein, for his comedy Much Ado About Nothing.