Handel’s historical oratorio Theodora is one of his most sublime works. And the fact that Katie Mitchell’s new production is brandished as state-of-the-art feminism, boasting two top-of-the-range pole ...

Theodora had its first performance at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden – predecessor of the Royal Opera House – in 1750. As an oratorio, it was presented in concert with no staging: Handel could never ...

Katie Mitchell's staging of Handel's great oratorio relocates it from the fourth-century to a bleak modern embassy – with remarkable results Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

Katie Mitchell’s new production of Handel’s Theodora comes bristling with warnings of sexual violence and exploitation. It was also recently revealed that the production team had availed themselves of ...

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work, performed by a committed cast, allows Handel’s genius to shine through The wry ...

The brave Christian noblewoman Theodora is arrested and thrown into prison because she refuses to honour the Emperor, and threatened with a fate worse than death – as a sex-worker for the President ...

It is difficult to know what to commend most strongly – the ravishing beauty of Valda Wilson and Christopher Lowrey's duets (Theodora and Didymus), the thrilling choral singing in Handel's superbly ...