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Prom 65: Alice Coote sings Handel

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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 麻豆官网首页入口 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.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 3 Sep 2015 22:15
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alcina-Sta nell`Ircana

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hercules - Resign thy club

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante - Scherza Infida

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Theodora - O that I on wings could rise

    Performer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: The English Concert.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante - Ballet Music

    Orchestra: The English Concert.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah - He Was Despised

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele - Myself I shall adore

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • Paul Horn

    Meditation Psalm 2

    • Inside the Great Pyramid.
    • Kuckuck.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Julius Caesar - Se pieta

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante - Dope Notte

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hercules - There in Myrtle Shades

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.

  • Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree

    The Fish House [extract]

    • Captiva.
    • 12k.
    • 1.

  • Paul Horn

    Meditation Psalm 2

    • Inside the Great Pyramid.
    • Kuckuck.
    • 2.

  • Ryley Walker

    Fonda

    • all kinds of you.
    • Tompkins Square.
    • 7.

  • Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree

    The Fish House [extract]

    • Captiva.
    • 12k.
    • 1.

Handel - Alcina

Sta nell'ircana (Ruggiero)

听

Sta nell鈥橧rcana pietrosa tana

Tigre sdegnosa, e incerta pende,

Se parte, o attende

Il cacciator.

Dal teso strale

Guardarsi vuole;

Ma poi la prole

Lascia in periglio.

Freme e l鈥檃ssale

Desio di sangue,

Piet脿 del figlio;

Poi vince amor.

Dal teso strale, etc.

Anonymous, based on 鈥極rlando furioso鈥�

by Ludovico Ariosto (1474鈥�1533)

听

In her rocky Hyrcanian den

an angry tigress lurks, uncertain

whether to flee or wait

for the hunter.

From the ready-strung arrow

she would protect herself,

but doing so would leave

her cub in danger.

She quivers, assailed

by thirst for blood

and fear for the cub;

love wins.

From the ready-strung arrow, etc.

Translation 漏 Avril Bardoni

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Handel - Hercules

Resign thy club (Dejanira)

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Resign thy club and lion鈥檚 spoils,

And fly from war to female toils!

For the glittering sword and shield

The spindle and the distaff wield!

Thund鈥檙ing Mars no more shall arm thee,

Venus and her whining boy

Shall all thy wanton hours employ.

Resign thy club and lion鈥檚 spoils, etc.

Thomas Broughton (1704鈥�74),

after Sophocles (496鈥�406 bce)

Handel - Ariodante

Scherza Infida (Ariodante)

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E vivo ancora? E senza il ferro?

Oh! Dei! Che far貌?

Che mi dite? O affanni miei!

Scherza infida! In grembo al drudo,

Io tradito a morte in braccio

Per tua colpa ora men vo.

Ma a spezzar l鈥檌ndegno laccio,

Ombra mesta, e spirto ignudo,

Per tua pena io torner貌.

Scherza infida! In grembo al drudo, etc.

after Antonio Salvi (1664鈥�1724), based on 鈥極rlando furioso鈥�

by Ludovico Ariosto (1474鈥�1533)

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听

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Am I still alive? And have no sword?

Oh! Gods! What shall I do?

What is your advice? Oh, what cares are mine!

Treacherous trick! In the paramour鈥檚 arms

betrayed into death鈥檚 clutches

am I by your guilt.

But in order to break the unworthy chains,

in the guise of a shade, a disembodied spirit,

I shall return to punish you.

Treacherous trick! In the paramour鈥檚 arms, etc.

Translation 漏 Avril Bardoni

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Handel - Ariodante

Ballet music and accompanied recitative.

听

Ginevra

What horror! Oh heavens!

Wretched am I 鈥�

My weeping and my grief find no peace 鈥�

Even in sleeping.

听

Handel - Theodora

Oh, that I on wings could rise

Swiftly sailing through the skies,

As skims the silver dove!

That I might rest,

For ever blest,

With harmony and love.

Oh, that I on wings could rise, etc.

Thomas Morell (1703鈥�84)

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Handel - Messiah

He was despised

听

He was despised and rejected of men,

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with Grief.

Isaiah 53: 3

He gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that

plucked off the hair: He hid not his face from shame and spitting.

Isaiah 50: 6

听

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Handel - Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Se pieta (Cleopatra)

听

Se piet脿 di me non senti,

Giusto, ciel, io morir貌,

Tu da鈥� pace a鈥� miei tormenti,

O quest鈥檃lma spirer貌.

Se piet脿 di me non senti, etc.

Nicola Francesco Haym (1678鈥�1729),

after Giacomo Francesco Bussani

听

Just heaven, if for me

you feel no pity, I shall die.

Grant peace to my torments,

or my soul will perish.

Just heaven, if for me, etc.

Translation 漏 Estate of Lionel Salter

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Handel - Semele

Myself I shall adore (Semele)

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Myself I shall adore,

If I persist in gazing.

No object sure before

Was ever half so pleasing.

Myself I shall adore, etc.

William Congreve (1670鈥�1729)

Handel - Ariodante

Dopo notte (Ariodante)

听

Dopo notte atra e funesta,

Splende in ciel pi霉 vago il sole,

E di gioia empie la terra.

Mentre in orrida tempesta

Il mio legno 猫 quasi assorto,

Giunge in porto, e鈥檒 lido afferra.

Dopo notte atra e funesta, etc.

听

听

After a dark and dreary night

the sun appears brighter than ever,

and fills the world with joy.

After weathering a fearful storm

that almost overwhelms my ship,

it gains the harbour and ties up by the shore.

After weathering a fearful storm, etc.

Translation 漏 Avril Bardoni

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Handel - Hercules

There, in myrtle shades (Dejanira)

听

There, in myrtle shades reclined,

By streams that through Elysium wind,

In sweetest union we shall prove

Eternity of bliss and love.

听

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