Name: “royal” Handel!
Start: 2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Auditorium du Conservatoire

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Mezzo-soprano

Eva Zaïcik

Ensemble

Justin Taylor

Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing

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Le Consort

“royal” Handel!

Tourcoing

France

Auditorium du Conservatoire

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London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the new capital of opera.  The only language to be sung on the stage of the King’s Theatre was to be Italian, and two other composers, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, were imported from the Italian peninsula. Both men were string players and contributed a new instrumental sweep to the company.
Public enthusiasm reached considerable heights: thirty-four operas – more than 460 performances in all – were given at the Royal Academy over a period of nine years. Handel premiered his masterpieces Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Ottone and Radamisto. Ariosti and Bononcini also enjoyed great success between 1720 and 1723, notably with Coriolano (Ariosti) from which the sublime aria ‘Sagri numi’ is taken.  ‘Royal Handel’ is a musical portrait of the first Royal Academy of Music. Eva Zaïcik and her partners in Le Consort celebrate the prodigious variety of the Handelian genius and introduce us to previously unrecorded arias by Ariosti and Bononcini: ‘We are captivated by the ghostly sonorities of “Stille amare”, the engulfing fury of “Agitato da fiere tempeste”, the virtuosity of “Gelosia, spietata Aletto”, the swirling excitement of “L’aure che spira”, the ascetic counterpoint of “Ombra cara” and the poignancy of “Deggio morire”.’

'Royal Handel' by Eva Zaïcik & Le Consort [EPK]

London, February 1719, birth of the Royal Academy of Music. Georg Friedrich Handel is appointed musical director. Originally from Halle, having spent four years in Italy, Handel wants to make London the new capital of opera.

The enthusiasm is considerable: 34 operas and more than 460 performances will be given in nine years at the Royal Academy. Handel creates his masterpieces Giulio Cesare in Egitto , Ottone and Radamisto there . Two Italian composers, Ariosti and Bononcini, also enjoyed great success in London between 1720 and 1723, notably with Coriolano (Ariosti) and his sublime aria Sagri numi . ROYAL HAENDEL is a musical portrait of the first Royal Academy of Music. Eva Zaïcik and her accomplices of the Consort celebrate the prodigious variety of Handelian genius and make us discover new arias by Ariosti and Bononcini.

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“royal” Handel! by Various, From (2022/2022), Auditorium du Conservatoire, Tourcoing, France

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