Name: Esther
Start: 2024-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Dom zu Halle

Organization

Admin

Solomons Knot

Orchestra

Solomon's Knot

Esther

Saarbrücken

Germany

Halle

Dom zu Halle

London

United Kingdom

Wigmore Hall

Public

Private

Santiago Martin Bermejo

Approved

Handel’s Esther is considered to be the first English oratorio, but the grand London version of 1732 had its roots in a much earlier masque performed in the late 1710s at Cannons.

The body of musicians of Handel’s earlier employer, James Brydges, was more modest, and this early version suits Solomon’s Knot’s chamber performance style perfectly. 10 singers will deliver the work by heart, together with 18 instrumentalists, in a dramatised concert performance.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble