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2 Aug 2014, Cadogan Hall

15:00 Sat 2 Aug 2014 Next Event

Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Armonia Atenea – Greek Myths

15:00 Sat 2 Aug 2014 Cadogan Hall

The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms, Armonia Atenea, and Artistic Director George Petrou, presents a programme with an appropriately classical flavour. Greek myths form the thread through a Baroque labyrinth of arias and overtures from French, German and Italian operas, including Gluck’s Orphée, Handel’s Arianna in Creta and Lully’s Phaeton.

Programme

- - George Frideric Handel
  - Alessandro - Overture(6 mins)
- - Johann Adolf Hasse
  - Artemisia(5 mins)– overture
- - Giovanni Paisiello
  - Olimpiade(5 mins)– 'E mi lasci così?' ... 'Ne' giorni tuoi felici'
- - Jean‐Baptiste Lully
  - Phaeton(10 mins)– suite
- - Antonio Vivaldi
  - Giustino(9 mins)– 'Vedrò con mio diletto'
- - Christoph Willibald Gluck
  - Orfeo ed Euridice(10 mins)– Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Dance of the Furies
  - Iphigénie en Aulide(4 mins)– 'Ma fille, Jupiter'
- - Giovanni Paisiello
  - Olimpiade(7 mins)– 'Scogli, oh Dio! le sue catene'

Performers

soprano
soprano
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Armonia Atenea
George Petrou
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms, Armonia Atenea is joined by its Artistic Director George Petrou to present a programme with an appropriately classical flavour. Greek myths form the thread through a Baroque labyrinth of arias and overtures from French, German and Italian operas, including Gluck’s Orphée, Handel’s Arianna in Creta and Lully’s Phaeton. Furies rage, sons defy their fathers and heroines bewail their fate in what promises to be a concert of high drama.

There will be no interval

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