Esther & Jonah

Friday, February 16 at 7:30 pm

Zilkha Hall / Hobby Center For The Performing Arts

Produced in collaboration with Bach Society Houston as part of the 2018 Houston Early Music Festival, this program comprises two concise music dramas from opposite ends of the 18th century: G. F. Handel’s Esther (1718) and Samuel Felsted’s Jonah (1775). With gorgeous arias and stirring choruses, Handel’s first English-language oratorio celebrates an Old Testament heroine’s ultimate victory over the forces of evil. Such works provided valuable models for Samuel Felsted, a composer born to an English family in Jamaica in the early 1740s. His concise setting of the story of Jonah and the whale is the first American oratorio.

SOLOISTS & FEATURED ARTISTS
Jennifer Bates, soprano
Eduardo Tercero, tenor
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor
Bach Choir Houston

More at http://www.arslyricahouston.org/esther-jonah/

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