Il trionfo del tempo e disinganno: Handel reimagined as a suburban psychodrama – with devastating results

This inventive take on the 1707 dramatic allegory is an astonishing reflection on the human condition and the dynamics of family life

Its sermonising libretto was never meant to be this much fun, but in Jacopo Spirei’s characterful production, with Christian Curnyn conducting, Hilary Cronin’s delightfully truculent Pleasure emerges as the moral heart of the piece