Organization

Conductor

Harry Bicket

Singer

Soprano

Emily D'Angelo

Xerxes

Lucy Crowe

Romilda

Paula Murrihy

Arsamene

Mary Bevan

Atalanta

Bass

Neil Davies

Ariodate

Contralto

Daniela Mack

Amastre

William Dazeley

Elviro

The English Concert

Orchestra

Italian

Gateshead

United Kingdom

Sage Gateshead

Pamplona

Spain

Auditorio Baluarte

Dunfermline

Carnegie Hall

London

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Xerxes Händel

Public

Approved

Handel’s spectacular opera of love and power in ancient Persia. Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert and a world-class cast in a concert performance of Serse (Xerxes).

Serse rules a vast empire, but the human heart is more difficult to command, and sometimes the beauty of a plane tree is the only constant in a dangerous world. Created to astonish London audiences in 1728, and premiered just minutes from St Martin in the Fields, Handel’s opera Serse is a drama of love, war and civil engineering, and tonight it’s brought sparkling back to life by a team of the world’s leading Handel interpreters – directed by Harry Bicket and starring the “barnstorming” (The Daily Telegraph) Emily D’Angelo as the lovestruck king.

English

Xerxes by Händel, From (2022/2022), Conductor Harry Bicket, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, United Kingdom

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues