Name: Handel’s Orlando
Start: 2024-06-30
End: 2024-06-30
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

Academy of Ancient Music

Barbican Centre

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Iestyn Davies

Orlando

Soprano

Rachel Redmond

Dorinda

Anna Dennis

Angelica

Bass

Matthew Brook

Zoroastro

Sophie Rennert

Medoro

Orchestra

Handel’s Orlando

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Orlando Händel

Public

Approved

Passion, magic and truly spectacular singing: Iestyn Davies stars, as Handel expert Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music perform Handel’s epic fantasy opera Orlando.
Torn between love and glory, the warrior Orlando gives way to madness – and rampages through a world of lovers, sorcerers and all-powerful spirits. Handel’s 1733 opera is a true extravaganza, performed tonight by some of the world’s most brilliant living Handelians.

Iestyn Davies is just one member of a virtuoso cast, supported by Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings – conducting his first Handel opera as AAM’s Music Director. Together, they’ll bring a beauty, an imagination and a verve worthy of one of Handel’s sublimest operatic achievements. ‘Utterly heavenly’ was how The Daily Telegraph described Davies in this role, and this is Handel as it was meant to be heard: performed with insight and real vocal brilliance.

English

Handel’s Orlando by Händel, Sun 30 Jun 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Laurence Cummings, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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