Amadigi was almost all aria, but much less indigestible than that makes it sound. I only found myself drifting off and thinking about chairs once, specifically that Pina Bausch piece with one figure stumbling about unable to see on a stage covered in chairs while another figure removes the chairs from harm's way, a bit like a bullfighter.

One of the strings in the Britten Sinfonia once had the back legs of their chair up on bricks, but I don't think it was for tax reasons.

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No chairs were harmed in yesterday's staged performance of Handel's Amadigi, I think because it wasn't on the radio and didn't need to prove that it wasn't four women in comfortable clothing standing at lecterns.

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