Monday 23 February 4-5pm
Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square
Dr Colin Timms will give a pre-concert talk on Theodora.
Thursday12 March 6.30pm
Peacock Room, Trinity College of Music
Professor Donald Burrows will give a pre-concert talk on the 18th-century English organ concerto and Handel’s contribution to the genre.
Wednesday 1 April 5-6pm
Britten Theatre,Royal College of Music
David Vickers will give a pre-performance talk on Alessandro.
Wednesday 8 April 6-7pm
Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square
Dr Ruth Smith writer on Handel’s oratorios, introduces Handel’s last great dramatic oratorio, Jephtha, in advance of the London Handel Festival performance on 14 April. Towards the end of his career Handel seems to be more and more daring. After a visionary drama with a wrenchingly sad ending (Theodora), he took on a libretto about a father’s sacrifice of his daughter which is apparently ordained by God. Why did Thomas Morell offer Handel this subject, and how did Handel make such appalling material into a masterpiece?
The talks during the Festival have been organised in collaboration with the Foundling Museum and the Royal College of Organists.
Tickets Free entry - no printed tickets, but it would be helpful to know if you are coming - 01460 54660 or click here to email
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