Farinelli Spotlight Concert
Thu 28 Nov
|Clayton Crown Hotel
Join 'Les Bougies Baroques’ – conducted by Ian Peter Bugeja & led by Piotr Jordan – and singers Thalie Knights & Cenk Karaferya on an 18th-century journey shedding light on one of the greatest singers in the history of opera: the castrato Farinelli.


Time & Location
28 Nov 2019, 19:30 – 21:30
Clayton Crown Hotel, 142-152 Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood, London NW2 3ED, UK
About the event
Join period instrument ensemble 'Les Bougies Baroques’ and singers Thalie Knights & Cenk Karaferya on an 18th-century journey shedding light on one of the greatest singers in the history of opera: the castrato Farinelli. Covering Farinelli's dazzling career spanning almost four decades – during which his virtuosity & refined style of singing charmed & astonished not only the connoisseurs and enthusiasts of the age, but also the likes of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Frederick Prince of Wales, King Louis XV, and Philip V of Spain – this concert paints a vocal profile of the castrato (backed up by instrumental numbers penned by composers who wrote music for Farinelli) through the rarely-performed music of composers Araja, Porpora, Giacomelli, Hasse, Vinci, Leo, Galuppi, Ariosti, and Broschi.
'Les Bougies Baroques'
Conductor | Ian Peter Bugeja
Leader | Piotr Jordan
Mezzo-soprano | Thalie Knights
Countertenor | Cenk Karaferya