Armida
A intercultural musical collage
Georg Friedrich Händel’s opera ‚Rinaldo’, which received its world premiere in 1711 in London, is turned upside down in „Armida instead of Rinaldo“, which is narrated like a collage from the oriental point of view. There, Rinaldo finds his existential determination through Armida, the determinant character.
Therefore it is not a coincidence that
Armida is a musical message – the possibilty of a vision, a comparison
of cultures, the examination of the unknown, the handling of the
phenomena of the fear of Turks, the crusades from another point of
view, wars in the name of God or other ideals and a love story, which
is still very current, whether in Berlin, Cologne or Istanbul.
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