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

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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.
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