Event listing: Handel and the Rival Queens | Smith Square Hall | Sat 26 May 2012 at 19:30

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Smith Square HallSmith Square, London, London, Greater London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

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Festival: Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music

Performers

Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn	Conductor, Harpsichord
Mhairi Lawson	Soprano
Lisa Milne	Soprano

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Early Opera Company: Handel's Rival Queens

Julia Savage, 26th May

It is no surprise that in this Olympic year, various cultural goings-on have taken on, or alluded to, a sporting theme. This year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music made no exception, taking as its theme the ethos of the Olympic Games – Contests, Competitions and the Harmony of Nations – and cunningly applying it to incidents in musical history, as well as to music itself.

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