Buxton Opera House"Saul," Olivia Fuchs writes in the programme for her staging of Handel's oratorio, "shows us the way a nation establishes itself as a superpower, how it justifies war as a means of defence and a way of establishing national identity." You might just disagree with this.Written at a time when questions were still being asked about the legitimacy of both the Glorious Revolution and the Hanoverian succession, Saul is not so much about foreign policy, imperialist or otherwise, as a ...
Guardian Music — Buxton Opera House"Saul," Olivia Fuchs writes in the programme for her staging of Handel's oratorio, "shows us the way a nation establishes itself as a superpower, how it... more info