In San Francisco Opera’s dashing production of Handel’s “Partenope,” the heroine is presented not as the Queen of Naples, as she is known in mythology, but as a chic socialite in 1920s Paris. The 1730 opera is about love and war, but in this production, Partenope’s several suitors (madcap Arsace, shy Armindo and militant Emilio) resemble warriors only slightly, transformed […]
