Handel's Imeneo

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Royal College of Music: Britten TheatrePrince Consort Road, London, Greater London, SW7 2BS, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Performers

RCM International Opera School
Laurence Cummings	Conductor
Paul Curran	Director
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield	Leader
Filipa van Eck	Soprano	Rosmene	2013 Mar 11
Annie Fredriksson	Mezzo-soprano	Tirinto	2013 Mar 11
Louise Alder	Soprano	Clomiri	2013 Mar 11
Morgan Pearse	Baritone	Imeneo	2013 Mar 11
Timothy Nelson	Bass-baritone	Argenio	2013 Mar 11

We celebrate the 21st production of a fully staged Handel opera in
collaboration with the Royal College of Music International Opera School.

There will be two casts - the dates for each cast is still to be confirmed.

Donald Burrows will give a talk about the opera before one of the
performances - the date is to be confirmed.

Map

London Handel Festival opens with a tongue-in-cheek Imeneo at the RCM

Nahoko Gotoh, 14th March

Imeneo (1740), Handel’s penultimate opera, is atypical on several fronts. It’s relatively short by Handel’s standards (three acts, under two hours of music); the plot is thin, but not as absurd or complicated as those of some of his other operas (there are no disguises, for example); the title role is composed for a bass; and the opera has a chorus which participates in the plot, rather than just

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