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BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 65: Alice Coote sings Handel

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03/09/2015

Prom 65: Alice Coote sings Handel

2015

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Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and the English Concert under Harry Bicket perform Handel arias.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Martin Handley presents a Prom in which mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and the English Concert under Harry Bicket perform Handel arias.

Live at the BBC Proms: Alice Coote and The English Concert with Harry Bicket in a programme of Handel arias.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Martin Handley

Handel - Arias from operas, oratorios and cantatas

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket (conductor)
Susannah Waters (stage director)

A programme of arias from Handel's 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 Handel's greatest arias. Taking on both male and female roles, she delves into what it means to be a man, or a woman, in Handel's 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.


This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 9th September at 2pm.

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