Handel’s historical oratorio Theodora is one of his most sublime works. And the fact that Katie Mitchell’s new production is brandished as state-of-the-art feminism, boasting two top-of-the-range pole ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is difficult to know what to commend most strongly – the ravishing beauty of Valda Wilson and Christopher Lowrey's duets (Theodora ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A rehearsal room in Opera Australia's Surry Hills headquarters. Bass-baritone Andrew Collis is standing on a table glowering at his ...

Theodora had its first performance at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden – predecessor of the Royal Opera House – in 1750. As an oratorio, it was presented in concert with no staging: Handel could never ...

Katie Mitchell’s modern-day staging of Handel’s oratorio is probing but problematic. The cast, however, is one of the finest ever assembled for the work Handel considered Theodora the greatest of his ...

Katie Mitchell’s new production of Handel’s Theodora comes bristling with warnings of sexual violence and exploitation. It was also recently revealed that the production team had availed themselves of ...

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work, performed by a committed cast, allows Handel’s genius to shine through The wry ...

The brave Christian noblewoman Theodora is arrested and thrown into prison because she refuses to honour the Emperor, and threatened with a fate worse than death – as a sex-worker for the President ...

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