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1 Sep 2024, Cowdray Hall
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Proms 2024 Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World

Proms at Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World
Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World
15:00 Sun 1 Sep 2024 Cowdray Hall
A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.
A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

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A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance also includes discussion on the themes of women’s voices in antiquity, and their echoes in later culture.

Programme to include music by Blow, F. Caccini, Handel and Purcell.

There will be one interval

Broadcast live on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3

Image: Nardus Williams © Bertie Watson