Hot on the heels of William Christie's memorable production of Marc-Antone Charpentier's David et Jonathas with Les Arts Florissants at the Edinburgh Festival, here are The Sixteen and Harry Christophers with Handel's tilt at the same tale, composed half a century later.
If the French opera was a revelation, Saul is no less important. Christophers calls it Handel's "first proper foray into oratorio" and it is the first fully-realised collaboration with librettist Charles Jennens, with whom he was to create the masterpiece of Messiah a few years later.
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