Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno​
G.F. Handel

Assistant Director​​ | Dir. Sydney Roslin | 2023
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center | Opera Neo (San Diego, CA)

"[Opera Neo's] production was in all ways delightful and impressive – ... [the] gripping musical performances came in service of an equally fine directorial conception"

Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune ​

"[A] rewarding staging of Handel’s early gem ‘Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, ...​successfully staged ]the] philosophical contretemps."

Ken Herman, San Diego Story ​

     Composed in 1707 in Rome, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Truth) is Handel's very first oratorio. It features four allegorical characters: Beauty, Pleasure, Time, and Truth. Beauty chooses to ignore the finite nature of existence, and the fickle quality of good looks, preferring instead to admire herself in the mirror of Pleasure. But Time and Truth unite to prove to her that beauty is a flower that blooms in a day and then dies. Time and Truth join forces to divert Beauty's desire from fleeting pleasures of the moment to more enduring values, and to direct her gaze from the surface to the essence of being.
     Performed at the spectacular Baker-Baum Auditorium at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, Handel's drama is reimagined by director Sydney Roslin in her Opera Neo directorial debut, and conducted by world-renowned harpsichordist and conductor Jory Vinikour.

Photography by Sydney Roslin