| Set List | Arias and ballet music from 'Alcina', 'Ariodante', 'Giulio Ceasre in Egitto', 'Hercuels', 'Messiah', 'Semele' and 'Theodora', Handel |
| Performance Notes | A programme of arias from Handels operas, oratorios and cantatas including Giulio Cesare, Semele, Hercules, Theodora, Messiah and Tra le fiamme as a window on being both: the dilemmas and turbulent emotions experienced by both male and female characters.
Few composers express emotion as directly or with greater psychological truth than Handel. British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote explores the full gamut of these emotions in a Late Night Prom featuring some of Handels greatest arias. Taking on both male and female roles, she delves into what it means to be a man, or a woman, in Handels world of sorceresses and knights, kings and queens. She is joined in her theatrical journey by regular collaborators and period-performance specialists Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
There will be no interval. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Susannah Waters - stage director,
Christopher Tudor - movement director |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/123),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs |