Xerxes

From the English National Opera 1988 Nicholas Hytner's innovative production has been

much acclaimed and this live recording from the English National Opera features outstanding

performances from a fine English cast, including Dame Ann Murray, Christopher Robson, Jean Rigby,

Lesley Garrett, Rodney Macann and Valerie Masterson. Designer David Fielding adds curious,

surreal touches to his eighteenth-century settings in the London pleasure gardens at Vauxhall,

which heighten the absurdity of the love intrigues in Handel's comic opera. (Sung in

English)