Best known for its exquisite opening aria sung to a tree (Ombra mai fu) and bristling with thwarted passions, Xerxes is arguably Handel’s greatest opera. Opera Theatre Company stages the work as part of their Handel Trilogy 2009, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s death. Spring 2009 will see Xerxes open in the O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College, Dublin, before touring to ten theatres throughout the country. The second opera in the trilogy, which will have a..
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