Every year, the former Electoral Kapellmeister of Hanover, George Frideric Handel, comes to life in our city in a lecture and performance by Dr. Franz Rainer Enste. The fact that this tradition is being continued in the 340th year of the great baroque master’s birth is not just a special tribute.
For the first time, Handel and Enste enter the House of Jewish Music and Culture with a premiere: At the heart of the program are Handel’s biblical, Hebrew or Old Testament subjects. The figures of King Saul and Queen Esther, the judges Samson and Jiphtach, the prophet Joshua, Judas Maccabeus and Israel in Egypt are incorporated into the biographically pointed and artfully presented narrative.
The Israeli coloratura soprano Rinnat Moriah, whose clear and highly virtuosic voice, sense of idiom, charm and expressiveness have been hailed by the international press as a sensational discovery, embodies her roles with playful ease.
With additional instrumental accompaniment from Bonnie Wagner on piano and Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck on cello, the amalgam of musical and narrative performance promises to be a true gift to Hanover on Handel’s 340th birthday.
Text: ESB
Tickets 23 /18 (reduced 8) euros, available in the webshop, at karten@villa-seligmann.de or 0511 844887-200.
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