HANDEL'S
HERCULES
Sunday, September 21, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Dennis Northway begins at
6:30 PM in the church chapel.
Monday, September 22, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater, Chicago
(Millennium Park)
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Dennis Northway begins at 6 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center (Randolph Café–north entrance).
This concert will be broadcast on WFMT 98.7 FM at 8 PM on Friday, February 13, 2009.
These concerts are dedicated to the memory of Jay A. Baylin.
PROGRAM
Hercules, HWV 60
Act 1, Scene 2
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Aria from Act I: "I feel the god, he swells my breast" (Hercules) |
Act I, Scene 5
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Chorus from Act I: "Crown with festal pomp the day" |
Act II, Scene 8
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Duet from Act II: "Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r" (Dejanira, Iole) |
Music of the Baroque
Chorus and Orchestra
This concert is expected to end at approximately 10:30 PM.
An epic legend about the destructive power of sexual jeaousy—told by one of music's best storytellers. George Frideric Handel's stirring musical drama about an ill-fated hero, his suspicious wife, and a beautiful prisoner unfolds in sumptuous arias and rousing choruses.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
Dejanira sits in a royal apartment in the Trachian Palace in Thessaly, uncertain of her husband Hercules’s fate and bemoaning his absence...
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PROGRAM NOTES
Although George Frideric Handel arrived in London in 1710 hoping to build a new operatic empire, audiences and critics resisted the genre’s charm...
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