TRAILER | TRIONFO Handel – Staatsoper Hannover

Four lives at a crossroads. Four people in the darkness of the night, when only the hope for an answer - no matter how faint - lights up the room. In Handel’s oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (1707), the desire to live is at odds with the realisation of one’s own mortality. In his early masterpiece, the composer was able to open up clear emotional spaces to the simultaneity of the incompatible. What does it mean to be alive - and what does it mean to demand to be fulfilled with this life? And