Buxton festival, Derbyshire Its sermonising libretto was never meant to be this much fun, but in Jacopo Spirei's characterful production, with Christian Curnyn conducting, Hilary Cronin's delightfully truculent Pleasure emerges as the moral heart of the piece There's a dash of good faith needed from director and audience alike to conjure up a discernible plot for Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Handel's first oratorio. Written by one Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, the libretto is, despite its author's day job, relatively light on religious language - and certainly no biblical epic in the vein of Handel's later English oratorios - but...