Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island
Buxton festival's new staging of Handel's Amadigi di Gaula reimagines the baroque opera as a Love Island-style reality show, replacing the original's magic and sorcery with television trickery and swapping a sorceress for an all-powerful producer. Director Olivia Fuchs turns the composer's slight four-character plot into a knowing send-up of dating-show conventions, using props such…