Roger Hecht posted from the Guardian:

>Producers are attracted by the ever-shifting tangle of relationships
>and by the mythological or semi-historical settings that can be moulded
>to fit almost any concept.  (Guardian)

Maybe that explains the surfeit of Handel operas.  Opera lovers get
irritated by, for example, by Figaro being set in a tractor factory
in Minsk (I made that up, but would not be surprised to be told that it
has been done), but Handel plots are not usually located in a particular
time or place, so the producer is free to follow any whim he or she might
have, without the audience being affronted.  I'm not sure, though, that
productions should be embarked on simply to indulge producers.

George Marshall, Cheshire UK
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