Xerxes: Handel

Opera In Three Acts.Sung In English.

Nicholas Hytner's highly innovative production of Handel's comic opera won the coveted Laurence Olivier Opera Award.This live recording from the English National Opera stars Ann Murray as Xerxes, whose love for Romilda (Valerie Masterson) sets off a series of intrigues.

Designer David Fielding adds stunning and surreal images to create his stylish eighteenth century settings in the London pleasure gardens at Vauxhall.Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the English National Opera Orchestra in an edition prepared by himself.