Name: Bach, Handel, and Hercules
Start: 2021-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Conductor

Matthew Dirst

Instrumentalist

Instrument

Contralto

Countertenor

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

Hercules

Soprano

Nola Richardson

Pleasure

Mezzo-soprano

Leia Lensing

Virtue

Tenor

Steven Brennfleck

An Attendant on Pleasure

Singer

Echo

Lust

Bass

Bass-baritone

Jason Zacher

Mercury

Others

Ars Lyrica

Orchestra

Ars Lyrica Houston

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Gearmáinis

Béarla

Bach, Handel, and Hercules

Houston

United States

Zilkha Hall

Bach, Handel, and Hercules: The Choice of Hercules Händel (+1 More)

Oratorio / Orchestral

The Choice of Hercules

Let us take care, let us watch over

Approved

G.F. Handel, The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69
Mvmt. 6: Air "Go Assert Thy Heav'nly Race" 
featuring Leia Lensing, mezzo-soprano

Bach, Handel, and Hercules
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

G.F. Handel, The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 | Mvmt. 6: Air (Virtue)

The iconic strongman Hercules earned his place in the pantheon not through conquests but rather for his wisdom and honor. A pillar of mythology since Antiquity, Hercules faces a familiar dilemma, one that found significant resonance in the Baroque era, when ancient stories were a principal source of moral instruction. Both composers treat Hercules’ temptation and ultimate embrace of virtue with ravishing arias and grand ensembles.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble