Mon 3 Jun 2013
Royal Festival Hall
Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Handel Overture to Giulio Cesare
Handel L’angue offeso mai riposa from Giulio Cesare
Handel Ah! Whither should we fly…As with rosy steps the morn from Theodora
Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor Op.6 No.12
Handel Where shall I fly? from Hercules
Handel Overture to Theodora
Handel Lord, to Thee each night and day from Theodora
Handel Dopo notte from Ariodante
Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat Op. 3 No. 2
Handel Svegliatevi nel core from Giulio Cesare William Christie director
Stéphanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano
Anna Stephany mezzo-soprano
Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was one of the foremost mezzo-sopranos of our time, and an artist the OAE worked with regularly, most notably at Glyndebourne and on CD.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Mon 13 May 2013
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was born in San Francisco, on 1 March 1954. She grew up in a very musical household, with both her parents being music teachers and heavily involved in opera.
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2013-2014 London concerts: now on sale
Fri 8 Feb 2013
Our 2013-2014 Southbank Centre season is now on public sale. It all starts off on 30 September when baroque legend William Christie returns to us to conduct a programme of orchestral overtures and arias by Rameau as well as music from England’s favourite adopted composer, George Frideric Handel. This opening concert not only starts our…
Read MoreHandel, Theodora CD
Peter Sellers takes Handel’s tale of self sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman bodyguard in 4th century Antioch and by resetting it in modern day America, transforms it into a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and persecution. Handel Theodora William Christie conductor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Cast: Lorraine Hunt,…
Read More2012-2013 London concerts: now on sale
Tue 14 Feb 2012
Our 2012-2013 Southbank Centre season is now on public sale. It all starts off on 30 September when Emeritus Conductor Sir Roger Norrington returns to us to conduct a programme of Haydn, Cherubini, Gluck, Berlioz and Bizet that not only starts our season but also our 5-event series celebrating strong female roles in opera, Queens,…
Read More2012-2013 Season – sneak preview
Wed 25 Jan 2012
As you may have read in a previous post, this Monday we launched our 2012-2013 Southbank Centre season to the press at the Royal Festival Hall. So it’s now time to give you some highlights and tell you what’s in store. Public booking for the season opens on 14 Feb, but you can book NOW…
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