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SUNDAY 19 JULY 2009
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4.15pm Proms Intro
Tonight's conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Dr Suzanne Aspden (University of Oxford) join Catherine Bott to introduce Handel's Partenope.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's first interval.
Prom 4: Handel: Partenope
- Date Sunday 19 July 2009
- Time 6.00pm – c10.05pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B or Prom for £5
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- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
Handel's posthumous fame long rested on his sacred oratorios, such as Samson (Prom 47) and Messiah (Prom 68), but it was as a master of Italian opera that he ruled the London stage for two decades, and all of his operas are being broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in the course of this anniversary year.
A relative rarity – even now that Handel's operas are once more back in fashion – Partenope is a dazzling comic parody of a typically convoluted opera seria plot, which only unravels when the supposed Prince of Armenia is challenged to fight bare-chested – and so is exposed as the disguised Rosmira, her challenger's abandoned fiancée. For its first complete Proms performance, the cast of the Royal Danish Opera's new production is led by 1993 Cardiff Singer of the World, Inger Dam-Jensen, and star counter-tenor Andreas Scholl.
There will be two intervals
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Programme notes available:
- Handel Partenope (c180 mins) (concert performance; sung in Italian)
- Cast (from Danish Opera)
- Inger Dam-Jensen soprano - Partenope
- Tuva Semmingsen mezzo-soprano - Rosmira
- Andreas Scholl counter-tenor - Arsace
- Christophe Dumax counter-tenor - Armindo
- Bo Kristian Jensen tenor - Emilio
- Palle Knudsen bass - Ormonte
- Concerto Copenhagen
- Lars Ulrik Mortensen conductor
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