We are delighted to open the prestigious MA Festival in Bruge this year with one of Handel’s finest works from his Italian period.

ll Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (1707) gives voice to an allegorical duel between vanity and transience. This first oratorio by Handel contains some of his most beautiful arias, such as the legendary “Lascia la spina”. Baroque specialist John Butt and his Dunedin Consort prove live why their Handel recordings are invariably honoured