Name: Handel: Orlando Liberata Collective & Ensemble Hesperi
Start: 2023-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Hub (St Mary's Market Square)

Organization

Lichfield Festival

Conductor

Adrian Butterfield

Orchestra

Ensemble Hesperi

Others

Liberata Collective

Handel: Orlando Liberata Collective & Ensemble Hesperi

Lichfield

United Kingdom

The Hub (St Mary's Market Square)

Public

Concert

Approved

Have you ever wondered how Handel’s own audiences would have experienced his operas? Liberata Collective endeavours to recreate this experience for modern audiences: using period instruments, providing printed libretti, and most crucially, performing in the art of Baroque Gesture (rarely seen on stages since that period). The complex plot of Orlando, one of Handel’s most vibrant and experimental works, is interpreted through a series of expressive movements, in the style that Handel’s own singers would have performed.

Supported by the Fidelio Trust for this Lichfield performance, the exciting young singers of Liberata Collective join forces with the dynamic and innovative musicians of Ensemble Hesperi (Festival visitors in 2019) playing on period instruments. Musical Director and highly-respected historical performance expert Adrian Butterfield directs the opera from the violin

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble