G.F. Haendel: Arminio

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Georg Friedrich Haendel, : Arminio
Opera in three acts (HWV 36) premiered at Covent Garden, London on January 12, 1737
Libretto adapted by Antonio Salvi from the tragedy Arminius by Jean Galbert de Campistron

Director: Max Emanuel Cencic
Sets, costumes and lighting: Helmut Stürmer
Costumes: Corine Gramosteanu
Lights: Christoph Hecker
Video: Étienne Guiol and Arnaud Pottier
Dramaturgy: Michael Fichtenholz

Arminio: Max Emanuel Cencic
Tusnelda: Layla Claire
Segesta: Pavel Kudinov
Varo: Juan Sancho
Sigismondo: Vince Yi
Ramise: Ruxandra Donose
Tullio: Owen Willetts

Children: Kyle Lippoth, Jonas Rothenbacher, Sinah Eiche, Philine Schüttle

Servants, soldiers: Alain Cerny, Frédéric Descharmes, Cédric Dujardin, Gabriel Glas, Alessandro Gocht, Andrej Hadas, Marlo Hosch, Alexander Kolarcyk, Cornelius Martjan, Markus Schmidt, Samuel Seidel, Robert Slomian, Alexander Sprick, Andreas Steffen, Gaston Weber

Armonia Atenea
George Petrou, conductor

The flagship work of the 39th Handel Festival presented by the Karlsruhe Opera is a rarity by the German composer, written in 1736, premiered at Covent Garden the following year, but withdrawn from the programme after six evenings and very rarely given since.

The plot is sufficiently little known that it can be summarized in a few words: Arminio, a German prince, confronts Roman troops commanded by Varo. On the verge of losing the battle, he fled, on the advice of his wife, Tusnelda, daughter of the German prince Segesta, who soon joined the Roman enemy. This caused despair to his daughter and to the brother of this one, Sigismondo, in love with Ramise, who is none other than Arminio's sister. The young girl turns away from her lover when she learns that Segesta, her potential father-in-law, has betrayed Arminio, arrested and sentenced to death. Sigismondo, Tusnelda and Ramise compete in pain... As for Varo, he also suffers, madly in love with a Tusnelda who refuses him, all under the contemptuous gaze of Tullio, a Roman captain who would like his leader to control his passion Arminio's execution was postponed in extremis and it was ultimately the latter who triumphed, his army defeating that of the enemy and killing Varo. Arminio forgives everyone, including Segesta, in an expected lieto fine. This story, however, corresponds to the original libretto, because the stage version in Karlsruhe allows itself some notable changes in what precedes it.