As BBC Radio 3 continues its journey though all of Handel's operas, Jonathan Swain is joined in the studio by Suzanne Aspden to talk about the dramatic, yet rarely performed, opera Fernando, Re di Castiglia. Handel: Fernando, Re di Castiglia Fernando ...... Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor) Elvida ...... Veronica Cangemi (soprano) Dionisio ...... Filippo Adami (tenor) Isabella ...... Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano) Alfonso ...... Neal Banerjee (tenor) Sancio ...... Max Emanual Cencic (countertenor) Altomaro ...... Antonio Abete (bass) Ill Complesso Barocco Alan Curtis (conductor).