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Handel Furioso UK Tour Begins, August 27

By: Jul. 10, 2013
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Handel Furioso UK TOUR 2013 is announced, 'A New Staging of Arias and Duets by Handel' at Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Opera Festival - 27, 28, 30, 31 August, Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre - 31 October and Liverpool's Epstein Theatre - 2 November.

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Handel Furioso is a love story told through arias and duets, exploring a couple's life together from childhood to old age. Two outstanding young singers, Anna Starushkevych (Winner of the Handel Singing Competiton 2012) and Robyn Allegra Parton appear in this production, directed by Max Hoehn. Acclaimed soloist, Julian Perkins, conducts the Sounds Baroque Ensemble, following their much-admired recording of early cantatas. This is the opening production by a new company, Isle of Noise, whose aim is to create new work, freely adapted from existing repertoire and presented outside the context of a traditional opera house. The production is part-funded by an Arts Council Grant award.

Music includes: "Cara Sposa" from Rinaldo. "Dove Sei" from Rodelinda. 'Caro. Dolce Amico Amplesso' from Poro. 'Due bell'alme' from Deidamia and excerpts from La Resurrezione, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del disinganno and the B Minor Trio Sonata.

Anna Starushkevych (Mezzo-Soprano) Anna recently made her debut at Wigmore Hall as Cleophus in La Resurrezione and appeared in recital at the London Handel Festival. She won the 2012 Handel Singing Competition and will appear in Faramondo at the Göttingen Festival under the direction of Laurence Cummings.

Robyn Allegra Parton (Soprano) recently made her debut with the Opera Comique as Mercedes in Carmen. She was a 2012 Kathleen Ferrier Award Finalist and winner of the Salzburg Nachwuchspreis. She regularly sings in concerts with John Elliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir.

Julian Perkins plays regularly with leading ensembles including concerto appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Sixteen and is founder-director of the period instrument group Sounds Baroque. He has conducted at the Buxton Festival and Dutch National Opera Academy. Plans in 2013 include a recording of duets and cantatas by Gasparini, Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti with Sounds Baroque.

Max Hoehn (Director of Handel Furioso, Artistic Director of Isle of Noise) Max's productions include The Emperor of Atlantis, Handel Furioso, The Queen of Spades (Arcola). As Assistant Director, his work includes The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Zürich Opera House), Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Mariinsky), working with directors like Jonathan Kent, DavId Pountney, Keith Warner and David Fielding. He is currently writing a new English translation of Musorgsky's Khovanshchina for Birmingham Opera Company's production, which will be directed by Graham Vick.




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