Radamisto enlivened by a dazzling stage ‘intruder’

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace (Zenobia) and Doreen Curran (Radamisto)

Radamisto by GF Handel

Northern Ireland Opera

O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin

Reviewed by Dick O’Riordan

As everyone knows, Mr Handel liked to bulk up his operas with fake facts of the historical kind to create plenty of leeway for his main business – an inexhaustible orchestral and vocal output. And so it was with this engrossing production by Northern Ireland Opera of Radamisto, which was having its first Irish outing 300 years after it ...