Name: ’Tis Nature’s Voice | Il Trionfo del Tempo
Start: 2023-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: West Road Concert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

Tenor

Nick Pritchard

Time

Contralto

Reginald Mobley

Deceit

Soprano

Anna Dennis

Piacere

Sophie Junker

Beauty

Orchestra

Academy of Ancient Music

’Tis Nature’s Voice | Il Trionfo del Tempo

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Milton Court Concert Hall

Cambridge

West Road Concert Hall

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Händel

Public

Private

The Triumph of Time and Truth

Approved

The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment: Laurence Cummings rediscovers the eternal truths (and very real delights) of Handel’s spectacular Italian oratorio.

Beauty knows that she’s fragile. Pleasure assures her that she’ll never fade – but then, he says that to all the girls. Disillusionment has some uncomfortable truths to tell, and Time, of course, always wins in the end. Or does he? In Handel’s allegorical oratorio, emotions take on a startlingly human form.

Before he came to London, Handel took Italy by storm. They called him ‘the dear Saxon’, and in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno he turns philosophy into pure theatre. Still relatively unfamiliar in the English-speaking world, it’s an absolute knockout: flamboyant, expressive and containing some of Handel’s very greatest melodies. It’s a real passion project for Laurence Cummings, who conducts four of the most charismatic vocalists on the current baroque scene.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble