George Frideric Handel: Apollo e Dafne
Company: Boston Early Music Festival
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy & Avi Stein, directors
An ambitious work from the composer’s early career, this masterpiece foreshadows his extensive operatic success with a vividly theatrical story drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The arrogant god Apollo is cursed to fall hopelessly in love with the beautiful nymph Daphne, forcing her to rebuff his increasingly fervent advances before escaping through a magical metamorphosis in a musically thrilling sequence featuring some of the young Handel’s most inventive and captivating writing.
$15 - $70
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy & Avi Stein, directors
An ambitious work from the composer’s early career, this masterpiece foreshadows his extensive operatic success with a vividly theatrical story drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The arrogant god Apollo is cursed to fall hopelessly in love with the beautiful nymph Daphne, forcing her to rebuff his increasingly fervent advances before escaping through a magical metamorphosis in a musically thrilling sequence featuring some of the young Handel’s most inventive and captivating writing.
$15 - $70
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