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London Handel Festival – Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Anthony Gregory & Madison Nonoa; directed by Andrew Staples; conducted by David Bates

A masque or pastoral opera, Handel’s Acis and Galatea would have been mounted with little or no staging or scenery when first performed at Cannons in 1718. No matter then that this year’s London Handel Festival opens, not with a full-scale Italian opera as usual, but with this work in the small space of Stone Nest, a …

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