5/5. This final walk in the series follows the composer's footsteps through London's historic theatreland. Writer and broadcaster
Roderick Swanston is Donald Macleod 's guide as they traverse the West End in search of the theatres in which Handel's operas were performed; from the former King's Theatre in Haymarket, to the former incarnation of the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, and a long-vanished third opera house at Lincoln's inn Fields - a dangerous area at the time.
Cara Sposa (Rinaldo)
David Daniels (countertenor), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood Giulio Cesare (excerpt)
Concerto Cologne, conductor Rene Jacobs Serse (excerpt)
Serse Carolyn Watkinson (contralto) Le Grand Ecurie et la Chambre de Roy, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire Deidamia (excerpt)
Choir and Orchestra of II Complesso Barocco, conductor Alan Curtis
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight