{"product_id":"william-christie_theodora_2015_war","title":"Theodora","description":"\"Theodora\" affirms the emergence of English opera, based on biblical episodes and whose moralizing message, patriotic exaltation, choral splendor combined with an exuberant vocality directly derived from opera, could only conquer the bourgeois middle class, commercial and enlightened, of Georgian England. \"Theodora\" is Handel's only oratorio based on a Christian subject, drawn from a play by Corneille and a novel by Robert Boyle adapted into a libretto by Thomas Morell. The story of the martyrdom of the young princess of Antioch and the Roman officer Didymus, of their chaste loves and their unwavering faith, flows effortlessly into a dramatic framework divided into acts and scenes and into the alternation typical of opera of recitatives, arias, and characterized duets. Warner Classics reissues at a low price the legendary version by William Christie, with Sophie Daneman, Richard Croft, and Nathan Berg.","brand":"William Christie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57746486460760,"sku":null,"price":20150925.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0825646098385.jpg?v=1784535026","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/william-christie_theodora_2015_war","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}