Concerto Köln & Jeanine De Bique

Jeanine De Bique, soprano

PROGRAMME

Georg Friedrich Händel: Symphony from the opera Partenope, HWV 27 / Carl Heinrich Graun: "Risolvere non oso" from the opera Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi, Graun WV B:1:6 / Georg Friedrich Händel: "Ritorna o caro" from the opera Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19 / Leonardo Vinci: Symphony from the opera Partenope / Carl Heinrich Graun: "L'empio rigor del fato" from the opera Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi, Graun WV B:1:6 / Georg Friedrich Händel: Ballet, "Entrée des songes agréables" from the opera Alcina / "Ah! Ruggiero crudel" and "Ombre pallide" from the opera Alcina / "L'alma mia frà le tempeste" from the opera Agrippina, HWV 6 / Georg Philipp Telemann: "Rimembranza crudel", Agrippina's aria from the opera Germanicus / Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite from the opera Rodrigo, HWV 5 / "Che sento, Oh Dio!.... Se pietà" from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto / Carl Heinrich Graun: "Tra le procelle assorto" from the opera Cleopatra e Cesare, Graun WV B:1:7

In her debut at the Torroella de Montgrí Festival, the Caribbean soprano Jeanine De Bique presents a programme based on her first recording, Mirrors, which explores the arias composed by Händel and his contemporaries for heroines such as Cleopatra, Rodelinda, Alcina and Agrippina. By combining and juxtaposing the most famous arias, written by Händel, with those composed by his contemporaries for the same heroines, we discover the depth and many-sidedness of these characters' nature, even when they were written from the same libretto.