Handel & Porpora: A Georgian Court Rivalry
Thu, 29 Nov
|St Cuthbert’s Church
An 18th-century musical journey shedding light on a rivalry between two composers – an infamously bitter rivalry which arose out of an even more bitter one at the heart of Britain's new Georgian monarchy.
Time & Location
29 Nov 2018, 19:30 – 21:00
St Cuthbert’s Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, Kensington, London SW5 9EB, UK
About the event
Join period instrument ensemble 'Les Bougies Baroques’ & mezzo-soprano Maria Ostroukhova on an 18th-century journey shedding light on a rivalry between two composers – an infamously bitter rivalry which arose out of an even more bitter one at the heart of Britain's new Georgian monarchy: that between King George II and his son Frederick Prince of Wales, who patronised Handel's [Second] Royal Academy of Music & Porpora's Opera of the Nobility respectively.