Alexandra Coghlan

Why we should revel in the empty virtuosity of Handel’s pasticcios

Gesamtkunstwerk be damned. Long live the Baroque jukebox. Alexandra Coghlan on two Handel pasticcios, Giove in Argo and Catone in Utica, at the London Handel Festival

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