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Haydn's 1782 heroic-comic Orlando Paladino is based on episodes from Ludovico Ariosto's sixteenth-century epic, Orlando Furioso. That verse novel provided the storyline and many of the characters (crazy Roland/Orlando, literally "madly" in love, the sorceress Alcina and the lovers Angelica and Medoro) for operas by Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck, Lully and Rossini. In homage to Ariosto's hugely popular Renaissance work, set designer John Conkiln and director James Robinson made the literary literal. In their production at Glimmerglass Opera (seen July 10), paper, writing and graffiti were everywhere, provoking physical violence or providing solace, as in the beautifully conceived ...