Handel: Theodora

Handel's great oratorio is one of the most celebrated choral works of the 18th century. A radical vision of faith and freedom. London in 1750: rocked by earthquakes, and stunned by the 65-year-old Handel’s penultimate oratorio. The adopted Englishman had abandoned his tried-and-tested Old Testament formula for a work set in Christian times, and ending not with triumph and fanfare, but the minor-key death of hero and heroine. The 18th-century au...