Seeing him at Glyndebourne last summer is what made Handel accessible to me after a couple decades of struggling with pre-Mozart opera. His album of Handel arias is a must-have even for baroque-sceptics.

Carmen Paddock

Carmen Paddock has been opera-obsessed since the age of twelve; hailing from a rock and country music family, the name is a coincidence. An American in Scotland, she writes about film, opera, and adaptations.

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