The great soldier Orlando is lovesick and shows little intention of resuming his former glorious and heroic deeds. When Orlando enters, he is a man clearly torn between his love of fame and his love for Angelica. "Orlando teaches all of us that love is often responsible for our loss of reason," runs a line from Act 3 of the opera. It is a modest moral, and perhaps one not demanding of the dramatic finesse and musical diversity that Handel serves up in Orlando - for the opera's complex of problems is rather more complicated than that. Beneath the fabric of this masterfully woven constellation of characters and values is a score of such independence and vivacity as to give Orlando a special position among Handel's works - indeed among opera literature in general.
Orlando has generally received very positive reviews.
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Orlando was released in 2007 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 277 reviews, giving Orlando (2007) an average rating of 78%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 72%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Orlando than critics were.
With a score of 78%, Orlando is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2007, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2007 with similar scores include films like Superbad, Zodiac and American Gangster.
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