Semi-staged Handel, with care

The Boston Globe | October 17, 2009| | Copyright

These are, of course, lean times for arts organizations and Boston Baroque made a pragmatic and sensible choice this year in picking Handel's "Amadigi di Gaula" for its annual semi-staged Baroque opera production in Jordan Hall. The work's modest proportions, only four vocal leads, helped to keep the price tag reasonable, and yet its status as a rarely spotted Handel opera also made its performance something of a novelty. Last night's traversal may have been the work's first airing in Boston.

Admittedly, it's not impossible to see why this opera has not vaulted to the front ranks of the ...

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