Georg Friedrich Händel's evocative oratorio is staged against the backdrop of the majestic Basilica of Maxentius as part of the Caracalla Festival 2025, the summer season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
Among the German composer's masterpieces, La Resurrezione premiered on 8 April 1708, then Easter Sunday, at the residence of Marquis Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, whom Händel was a guest of. Rich in symbolism, the work depicts the events between Good Friday and Easter with the conflicts between the Angel and Lucifer and the reflections of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Cheofe and St John the Evangelist, in a battle between faith and doubt, enthusiasm and indifference in modern life.
The first musical theatre event of the festival, it is a new production by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with the direction by Ilaria Lanzino, at her debut in Italy, and performed by artists such as Sara Blanch, Ana Maria Labin, Teresa Iervolino, Charles Workman and Giorgio Caoduro, accompanied by the Orchestra Nazionale Barocca dei Conservatori, conducted by Maestro George Petrou, one of the greatest specialists of the Baroque repertoire.
Photo: The Basilica of Maxentius, ph. Simona Murrone, Parco Archeologico del Colosseo
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