(Photo: Benjamin Elsholz) In the Goethe-Theater of Bad Lauchstädt—Germany’s only fully preserved Goethe-era theater—Handel’s “Clori, Tirsi e Fileno” received a rare and refreshingly focused staging. Composed around 1707 for unknown purpose, this pastoral cantata, though small in scale, hints at operatic intensity. In this performance by three exceptional young singers under Michael Hofstetter, its elegant construction emerged as both theatrically {…}