INTERNATIONALE HÄNDEL-FESTSPIELE KARLSRUHE GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Max Emanuel Cencic • Lauren Snouffer Gaia Petrone • Juan Sancho Armonia Atenea conducted by George Petrou Staged by Max Emanuel Cencic Max Emanuel Cencic excels with his celebrated and award-winning production of George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece Arminio at the International Handel festival Karlsruhe. The remarkable counter-tenor Cencic, who dedicates himself GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL to the revival and performance of the music of the 18th century, demonstrates once more that Baroque singing can be both technically brilliant and at the same time modern and emotionally engaging. His enchanting staging of Arminio is the fulminant revival of the heroic story of Arminio and Tusnelda, based on historical events during the Varus Battle in which the Germans under the leadership of Cherusci chieftain Arminius stopped the Roman conquests in Germania. When premiered in 1737 at London’s Covent Garden, Arminio strangely Conductor George Petrou received only six performances, despite being praised as “a miracle” Orchestra Armonia Atenea and “in every respect excellent and vastly pleasing” by contemporaries. Stage Director Max Emanuel Cencic Handel’s opera fell into oblivion– until Cencic put it into the limelight at the Handel festival in Karlsruhe, resulting in the “rehabilitation of Arminio Max Emanuel Cencic the piece” (FAZ). Tusnelda Lauren Snouffer Cencic’s production of Arminio, which created a furore when Segeste Pavel Kudinov performed at the Theater an der Wien, features the ensemble Armonia Varo Juan Sancho Atenea under the baton of George Petrou and stars the stage director in the leading role: “Cencic is not only as counter-tenor but also as Sigismondo Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk stage director at the peak of his success” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Ramise Gaia Petrone Tullio Owen Willetts Video Director Corentin Leconte Length: 168' Shot in HDTV 1080/50i Cat. no. A 050 50434 A production of Ozango in cooperation with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, UNITEL, Classicall TV_M media and Szenik, with the support of CNC World Sales: All rights reserved · credits not contractual · Different territories · Photos: © Felix Gruenschloß · Flyer: luebbeke.com Flyer: · Gruenschloß contractual Felix Different Photos: © territories credits · not rights · All reserved · Tel. +49.30.30306464 [email protected] Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany · Tel. +49.89.673469-630 · [email protected] www.unitel.de.