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Belshazzar

Name: Belshazzar
Start: 2022-07-30T19:00:00
Location: War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

American Bach Soloists

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A dramatic account of the fall of Babylon at the hands of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the first Persian empire, and the ensuing freeing of the Jewish nation as told by Daniel, the noble youth of Jerusalem, is the subject of Handel's oratorio, composed during the peak of his creative life. After falling into neglect after Handel's death, 21st-century revivals of this splendid music have been presented in Zurich and Aix-en-Provence. A central a...

Program

George Frideric Handel - Belshazzar

Composer

Participants

Sarah Coit

Daniel, a Jewish prophet

Jeffrey Thomas

Conductor

Mischa Bouvier

Gobrias, an Assyrian Nobleman, revolted to Cyrus

Maya Kherani

Nitocris, mother of Belshazzar