Windsor Festival Logo7.30pm Thursday, 18th September 2008

Maidenhead Music Society in association with the Windsor Festival present THE COMPLETE SINGER in a fully-staged production, fully staged Baroque and Classical Solo Cantatas.

“Hell Hath No Fury...”

Hell hath no fury drawingThe Complete Singer, promoting and developing young soloists, presents an evening of ravishing solo cantatas by Handel, Haydn and Purcell, featuring famous mythological characters in extremis. Ariadne and Armida, and Phaedra and Lucretia are included, as well as the biblical character, Dejanera. The performance is fully staged, and the singers are accompanied by harpsichord and ‘cello obbligato.

Singers:
Krysia Mansfield mezzo
Aino Konkka mezzo
Jaime-Jo Hallam mezzo
Alice Privett soprano

Accompanied by:
Nancy Cooley harpsichord
Miriam Lowbury 'cello

Hell Hath No Fury is a concert programme that has been carefully put together to create a unified theatre-piece. The concept is born of the material: throughout the 17th and 18th centuries (and indeed in our era, note Britten’s Phaedra and Maxwell-Davis’ Eight Songs for a Mad King) the solo cantata was a highly popular form, at that time usually featuring women famous from either classical mythology or ‘histories’, whose story-lines gave composers a chance to explore extreme states of emotion. Thus the form was a sort of mono-opera, and The Complete Singer cast of young and talented artists work together to create an intense and varied theatrical / musical experience.

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