Name: Cambridge Handel Opera – Handel’s 'Rodelinda'
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Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC) mounts productions of Baroque operas that celebrate the fusion of music and the stage, with performances that trust the composer and are not just ‘historically informed’, but ‘historically inspired’. In our productions, vibrant synergy between music and stage respects the integrity of the work and conveys its coherence and passion. Baroque stagecraft is incorporated in a manner that speaks to audiences directly and excitingly.

Performances are led from the harpsichord by Artistic Director Julian Perkins. The company unites the best of youth and experience, with casts that combine upcoming stars and more established solo singers, and an orchestra in which leading professionals rehearse and perform alongside advanced students.

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Footage taken from the dress rehearsal of Handel’s 'Rodelinda', HWV 19 (1719)

Cambridge Handel Opera presents its inaugural staged production. A timeless set in black and red gives a claustrophobic atmosphere to this intense drama in which the interaction of individuals is stripped to its essentials of love, lust and ambition, brought to life by Handel at his most scintillating.

Recorded with Sounds Baroque
29 March 2018 
Great Hall, The Leys, Cambridge

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Cambridge Handel Opera – Handel’s 'Rodelinda'

For its second staged production Cambridge Handel Opera performed 'Tamerlano', Handel’s most intensely psychological opera. The fallen Emperor Bajazet cannot come to terms with his humiliation – nor can he let his daughter Asteria fall into the hands of his presumptuous victor, Tamerlano. In an austere and starkly lit setting, the focus was on the characters’ conflicted interaction as paternal heartache, royal status, thwarted love and frustrated passion collide to devastating effect.

Recorded with Sounds Baroque
4 April 2022 
Great Hall, The Leys, Cambridge

Cambridge Handel Opera – Handel’s 'Tamerlano'

Mohammed Danish

Overture to ‘Tamerlano’ (1724) by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)Arranged for solo harpsichord by Julian Perkins after John Walsh’s arrangement in 'Six Ov...

Julian Perkins – Overture to Handel's 'Tamerlano'

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