Handel’s Fascinating, Neglected Deidamia, at Wexford, Features Virtuoso Performances

Handel’s fascinating, neglected Deidamia, at Wexford, features virtuoso performances

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Wexford Festival Opera 2025: Deidamia

Deidamia. Image, Pádraig Grant**** When it comes to spectacle, conductor and director George Petrou knows a thing or two. Petrou’s revival of Handel’s oft forgotten opera seria, Deidamia, announcing itself with the visual excitement of a theme park simulator ride. Dark billowing clouds, bodies arising from the dead, all gob smackingly gorgeous to behold. Petrou’s production a Grecian theme park in which myth marries modern. Homer colliding with …