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Arminio, George Frideric Handel ; a production of Ozango in cooperation with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, UNITEL, Classicall TV_M media and Szenik, with the support of CNC

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Arminio

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Recorded from the International Handel Festival Karlsruhe, March 2017

George Frideric Handel ; a production of Ozango in cooperation with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, UNITEL, Classicall TV_M media and Szenik, with the support of CNC

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Max Emanuel Cencic excels with his celebrated and award-winning production of George Frideric Handel's masterpiece Arminio at the International Handel Festival Karlsruhe. The remarkable countertenor Cencic, who dedicates himself to the revival and performance of the music of the 18th century, demonstrates once more that Baroque singing can be both technically brilliant and at the same time modern and emotionally engaging. His enchanting staging of Arminio is the revival of the heroic story. When premiered in 1737 at London's Covent Garden Arminio strangely received only six performances, despite being praised as 'a miracle' and 'in every respect excellent and vastly pleasing' by contemporaries. Handel's opera fell into oblivion - until Cencic put it into the limelight

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