Sara Couden’s “Tenderly Blooming” Voice is a Highlight of ‘Rinaldo’ in New Review

Sara Couden (center) as Goffredo. Image via West Edge Opera.

Contralto Sara Couden “remains a team builder to the end, her voice tenderly blooming in the closing group hug ensemble scene,” reads a glowing new review in the San Francisco Chronicle of West Edge Opera’s production of G.F. Handel’s Rinaldo. This “delightfully outrageous” adaptation of Handel’s comedic opera features modern genre-bending updates to the source material including elements of science fiction and superhero movies. Click the link below to read the full review now.