Susanna – review

Iford Manor, Bradford-on-AvonHandel's oratorios were once a no-go area for opera directors; now they pose an irresistible challenge. The story of Susanna and the Elders – from the apocryphal Book of Daniel – is essentially about rape, famously painted by Rembrandt, Rubens and, perhaps most powerfully, by Artemisia Gentileschi, herself violated as a young woman. Pia Furtado's production for Iford Festival Opera is set in a present-day, puritanical, rural religious community. The violent menac...

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