Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale’s new music director Peter Whelan admires Handel’s 1728 masterpiece “Tolomeo,” an opus filled with passion, resilience and transformation. “‘Tolomeo’ ends with something Baroque opera returns to again and again but never makes feel formulaic: the possibility of redemption, of relationships restored, of people finding their way back to each other after enormous suffering. That’s not naive optimism — the […]
