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Handel - Teseo

31/05/2012

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Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Handel's opera Teseo.

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Handel's Teseo, a story about the fate of the ancient Greek hero Theseus. Plus the BBC SSO in Debussy, arr Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire.

Jonathan Swain presents Thursday Opera Matinee. Handel's Teseo is a story about the fate of the ancient Greek hero Theseus, who has returned in disguise to the city of Athens, ruled by his capricious father Aegeus. Both men are in love - or lust - with the same woman, Agilea. And so the drama unfolds, as Aegeus tries to break his earlier promise to marry the sorceress Medea...

Nicholas McGegan conducts a stellar cast at the Gottingen International Handel Festival 2011.

After the first three acts of the opera today (you can hear Acts 4 & 5 tomorrow) there's more from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: songs by Debussy orchestrated by John Adams.

Handel: Teseo, Acts 1-3
Teseo ..... Susanne Ryden (soprano)
Agilea ..... Amy Freston (soprano)
Medea ..... Dominique Labelle (soprano)
Clizia ..... Celine Ricci (soprano)
Egeo ..... Robin Blaze (altus)
Minerva ..... Johanna Ness (soprano)
Egeo ..... Drew Minter (countertenor)
New York Baroque Dance Company
Gottingen Festival Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

Debussy (arr. Adams): Le Livre de Baudelaire
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

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