Orlando review – WNO's musically restorative evening

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Making Orlando a traumatised second-world-war RAF pilot treated by a magician/psychiatrist brings clarity to Handel’s 1733 opera, enlivened by a stellar cast and characterful playingFollowing the success of I Puritani, Welsh National Opera’s Madness season continues with Handel’s 1733 masterpiece. In a staging first seen at Scottish Opera in 2011, the narrative is transposed from mythological glades and pastures to the wing of a London hospital