Overview - Händel: Rodelinda

Overview

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’s 2004 Met premiere production. Rodelinda is faced with an impossible dilemma: With her husband Bertarido believed dead, she either has to marry the despised Grimoaldo (the elegant Joseph Kaiser), who has usurped her husband’s throne, or see him murder her son. But Bertarido (leading countertenor Andreas Scholl) is alive and eventually reclaims both throne and wife—and makes peace with his enemies. Stephanie Blythe is marvelous as Eduige, Bertarido’s sister, who is betrothed to Grimoaldo but turns against him. Baroque authority Harry Bicket conducts.

Cast

• Name: Renée Fleming

  Character: Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido

  Popularity: 0.7116

  

• Name: Andreas Scholl

  Character: Bertarido, King of Milan, believed to be dead

  Popularity: 0.1607

  

• Name: Joseph Kaiser

  Character: Grimoaldo, usurper of Milan, betrothed to Eduige

  Popularity: 0.1137

  

• Name: Stephanie Blythe

  Character: Eduige, Bertarido's sister, bethrothed to Grimoaldo

  Popularity: 0.1672

  

• Name: Iestyn Davies

  Character: Unulfo, counselor to Grimoaldo, secretly loyal to Bertarido

  Popularity: 0.0445

  

• Name: Shenyang

  Character: Garibaldo, counselor to Grimoaldo

  Popularity: 0.196

  

• Name: Moritz Linn

  Character: Flavio, son of Rodelinda and Bertarido

  Popularity: 0.0633

  

• Name: Harry Bicket

  Character: Conductor

  Popularity: 0.0404