Press | October 29, 2020
The Times – Britain’s Orpheus Review
“Connolly, after forays into Wagner, Mahler and a brush with cancer, remains optimal casting for the charismatic title role, written for a woman, even though the role of the biblical king was intended as an avatar for Handel’s royal patron, George II, here seen as the Act I lover, opposite Mafi’s radiant Queen, and as an international diplomat in the
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