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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Heroes and Villains

Afternoon Concert: Heroes and Villains: Episode 4: Handel: Lotario

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Episode 4: Handel: Lotario

Heroes and Villains

Handel: Lotario

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Heroes and Villains, Handel: Lotario

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Lotario.

A complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Lotario, featuring contralto Sara Mingardo, soprano Simone Kermes and Il Complesso Barocco under Alan Curtis.

Handel Operas 2009

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas continues with a performance of Handel's Lotario, an intended blockbuster Handel wrote to launch his own opera company in 1729. It centres on a hero who is not a womanising rake but a brave warrior, faithful to the woman he loves - Adelaide, the deposed Queen of Italy.

Handel: Lotario

Lotario, King of Germany ...... Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Adelaide, Queen of Italy ...... Simone Kermes (soprano)
Berengario, their enemy ...... Steve Davislim (tenor)
Matilde, his wife ...... Sonia Prina (contralto)
Idelberto, their son ...... Hilary Summers (contralto)
Clodomiro, their general ...... Vito Priante (bass)
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis (director).

Afternoon Concert: Heroes and Villains

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series featuring musical heroes and villains, performed by BBC orchestras

Jonathan Swain presents a series featuring musical heroes and villains, as well as Haydn String Quartets, performed by BBC orchestras

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