Introducing Handel Opera Studio, the London Handel Festival’s new venture

Florence Lockheart
Monday, February 20, 2023

The new studio's first production builds upon Handel’s cantatas with new music, dance and immersive theatre to develop the strange world of The Realms of Sorrow. Florence Lockheart talks to opera director Adele Thomas and composer Héloïse Werner about how they created an evening of theatre out of just four songs

'Each of the characters has someone that they are yearning for but who is out of reach'. Dancer Jonathan Luke Baker is a constant in each scene, shapeshifting to mould to each character’s longing.
'Each of the characters has someone that they are yearning for but who is out of reach'. Dancer Jonathan Luke Baker is a constant in each scene, shapeshifting to mould to each character’s longing.

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