Handel - Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (with Franco Fagioli) | Festival d’Aix, Act 1/2

From the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, 2016 An exceptionally moving performance of the first Handel’s Oratorio in two parts with one of the major directors of our time: Krzysztof Warlikowski Watch the second act: Subscribe to EuroArts: Sabine Devieilhe - beauty Sara Mingardo - disillusionment Franco Fagioli - the pleasure Michael Spyres - the emps Emmanuelle Haïm - conductor Le Concert d’Astrée Krzysztof Warlikowski - stage director Libretto of Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili George Friedrich Haendel - Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Truth) Beauty prefers to ignore her finite nature while admiring herself in the mirror of Pleasure. But Time and Disillusion remind her constantly that “beauty is a flower that blooms in one day and then dies.“ The debates and struggles of these four allegorical figures inspired the young Handel to compose his first oratorio, originally composed for the Catholic Rome based on a libretto of Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Listen