Name: Acis and Galatea
Start: 2024-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Holland Park Theatre

Admin

Opera Holland Park

Conductor

Michael Papadopoulos

Stage director

Louise Bakker

Set designer

Alyson Cummins

Lighting designer

Johanne Jensen

Choreographer

Merry Holden

Countertenor

Anthony Gregory

Acis

Soprano

Elizabeth Karani

Galatea

Bass

Chuma Sijeqa

Polyphemus

Tenor

Ruairi Bowen

First Damon

Orchestra

City of London Sinfonia

Chorus

Opera Holland Park Chorus

Acis and Galatea

London

United Kingdom

Holland Park Theatre

Acis and Galatea Händel

Public

Private

Keerthi Raj

Béarla

Approved

A miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation

Composed in 1718 for private performance in the gardens of the Duke of Chandos’s palace, and based on an episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Handel’s tragicomic serenata is a miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation. Birdsong and murmuring waters weave through the music as the sea nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis celebrate their mutual love, enraging the lustful cyclops, Polyphemus. When Polyphemus attacks Acis, the shepherd is transformed into a natural spring, forever at one with the idyllic landscape and the tears of his beloved nymph.

Louise Bakker directs Opera Holland Park’s first production of a Handel opera. Former Opera Holland Park Young Artist and alumnus of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker scheme Michael Papadopoulos conducts, with Anthony Gregory and Elizabeth Karani as the lovers, Acis and Galatea. South African bass-baritone Chuma Sijeqa takes the role of Polyphemus, the cyclops driven mad by unrequited passion.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble