CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Performance
Sunday, February 2, 2014 | 2 PM
The English Concert
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
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Early-music specialist Harry Bicket returns to Carnegie Hall with The English Concert for the next installment in their Handel project—the rarely heard oratorio Theodora. Featuring some of the composer’s most glorious music, this tragic work depicts the self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard, sung here by vocal greats Dorothea Röschmann and David Daniels. This deeply moving oratorio serves as a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and an indictment of persecution, topics that still resonate with audiences today.
Performers
- The English Concert
Harry Bicket, Artistic Director
- Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano (Theodora)
- Sarah Connolly, Mezzo-Soprano (Irene)
- David Daniels, Countertenor (Didymus)
- Andrew Kennedy, Tenor (Septimius)
- Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone (Valens)
- The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Julian Wachner, Director of Music and the Arts
Program
- HANDEL Theodora (concert performance)
Audio
Handel's
Theodora ("As with rosy steps the Morn advancing")
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket, Conductor | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-Soprano
AVIE Records