Name: The Judgment of Paris
Start: 2023-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Trinity College Chapel

Organization

Conductor

Julian Perkins

Singer

Anna Dennis

Venus

Kitty Whately

Pallas

Helen Charlston

Juno

Thomas Walker

Mercury

Jonathan Brown

Paris

Anna Cavaliero

Attendant 1

Aksel Johannes Skramstad Rykkvin

Attendant 2

Cambridge Handel Opera Group

Orchestra

Academy of Ancient Music

The Judgment of Paris

Cambridge

United Kingdom

Trinity College Chapel

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Contralto

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

A prizewinning work
Following the success of our performance and CD of John Eccles’ Semele, CHOC continues its alternation of Handel opera production with English music drama, composed in the decade before Handel’s arrival in England, that deserves to be better known.

Between The Way of the World and his libretto for Semele, Congreve wrote the libretto of a one-act masque on the famous classical story of the contest between three goddesses for the award of a golden apple by Paris, prince of Troy – a judgment that led to the Trojan War.

The libretto was itself designed for a contest, a musical one, with cash prizes, handsomely sponsored by a group of aristocrats. John Weldon, organist of New College Oxford, was the youngest finalist. Unexpectedly, his setting  – which improves on Congreve’s libretto ­– won first place in the ‘Musick Prize’, triumphing over the more conservative submissions by the three older and more experienced finalists, John Eccles, Daniel Purcell, and Gottfried Finger.

Weldon had studied with Purcell, and was one of his most talented followers. In The Judgment of Paris he combines elements of Purcell’s style with attractive features of modern Italian opera, a kaleidoscopic variety of forms, vivid instrumental dialoguing, bravura coloratura for the soloists, charming choruses (in up to six parts) and not a few flashes of wit, suggesting how successfully English opera could have developed had Italian opera not annexed elite fashion.

English

The Judgment of Paris by Weldon, J., lau 28 okt 2023, Frá (2023/2023), Hljómsveitarstjóri Julian Perkins, Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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