The Santa Fe Opera, like most US opera companies, casts a wary eye on Regietheater, or director’s theatre, but it does not shun it. Representing the radical front this summer are the deconstructive talents of David Alden, as trained on Handel’s Radamisto.

Although the production is replete with idiosyncratic detail, some of it thought-provoking, the essence of this drama about a marriage’s ability to withstand assault by a tyrant, who orders a city stormed to possess the married woman he craves, emerges strongly.