Handel TOLOMEO - Baroque Encounter: Costumed and semi-staged in a new English translation at St John's Smith Square, London on Saturday 16th September 2023

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Handel TOLOMEO - Baroque Encounter

Costumed and semi-staged in a new English translation

Add to my Calendar 16-09-2023 19:00 16-09-2023 21:00 36 Handel TOLOMEO - Baroque Encounter Handel's opera Tolomeo premiered in 1728 and was the last opera he wrote for the Royal Academy of Music and for the superstar trio of castrato Senesino with sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.  Baroque Encounter presents a costumed and semi-staged performance in a new English translation. The opera tells the tale of the exiled Egyptian prince (Tolomeo) in shepherd's disguise, his loving wife (Seleuce) searching for her lost husband, his shipwrecked brother (Alessandro) on an assassin's mission, and the romantic yet obsessively malevolent attentions of the Cypriot royal siblings (Araspe and Elisa) who pursue them. Handel's score weaves a rich web of emotions - romantic, poignant, tragic and tormented - which eventually resolves into a glorious harmony that only the great master can achieve. The performance is in support of the Cardinal Hume Centre.  St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Saturday 16th September 2023
7:00 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Tolomeo, re d'Egitto, HWV 25

Performers

Glenn Kesby – counter tenor
Carmen Lasok – soprano
Lucy Thomas – soprano
John Lofthouse – baritone
Alexander Hutton – counter tenor
Asako Ogawa – Conductor / harpsichord
Christopher Tudor – Director

Baroque Encounter

Programme Note

Handel's opera Tolomeo premiered in 1728 and was the last opera he wrote for the Royal Academy of Music and for the superstar trio of castrato Senesino with sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. Baroque Encounter presents a costumed and semi-staged performance in a new English translation.

The opera tells the tale of the exiled Egyptian prince (Tolomeo) in shepherd's disguise, his loving wife (Seleuce) searching for her lost husband, his shipwrecked brother (Alessandro) on an assassin's mission, and the romantic yet obsessively malevolent attentions of the Cypriot royal siblings (Araspe and Elisa) who pursue them.

Handel's score weaves a rich web of emotions - romantic, poignant, tragic and tormented - which eventually resolves into a glorious harmony that only the great master can achieve.

The performance is in support of the Cardinal Hume Centre.

Handel's Tolomeo poster with silhouette of the Pyramids

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