Perhaps the most dazzling portion of Handel’s output comes from the three formative years he spent in Italy while in his early twenties. These youthful pieces are marked by bold experimentation and delight in virtuosity, and chief amongst these is “La resurrezione.” Written at a time when opera was banned in Rome, it treats sacred themes in a mythical fashion to create a spectacular drama that rivals his greatest staged works.
Program Notes by Robert Mealy
March 24, 2015 - Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
March 25, 2015 - the Morgan Library & Museum - PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
THE HELICON ENSEMBLE
AVI STEIN, DIRECTOR
George Frideric Handel
La resurrezione (1708)
24 March 2015 7:30 PM - Battell Chapel, Yale University
free admissiom
ism.yale.edu
203-432-5062
25 March 2015 7:30 PM - the Morgan Library & Museum
Purchase Tickets Here
Gilder Lehrman Hall
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
$45; $35 for Helicon members
themorgan.org/programs
212-685-0008 ext. 560
The printed program is approximately two hours and twenty minutes in length including, one twenty minute intermission.