Händel's Hercules: Concert Version by the English Concert

About the Event

Harry Bicket conducts the acclaimed musicians of the English Concert in a concert performance of the rarely performed opera Hercules by Händel.

Dramma per musica in three acts, HWV 60 (1745)
Libretto by the Reverend Thomas Broughton, after Women of Trachis by Sophocle and the tenth book of the Metamorphoses by Ovide
Harry Bicket: direction
Matthew Rose: Hercules
Alice Coote: Dejanira
Elizabeth Watts: Iole
James Gilchrist: Hyllus
Rupert Enticknap: Lichas
The English Concert
Choir of the English Concert

Sung in english with french subtitles