Millenium Orchestra: Handel: Theodora - COMPACT DISCS

Millenium Orchestra: Handel: Theodora - COMPACT DISCS

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Handel: Theodora

Artist:

Millenium Orchestra

Label:

Ricercar

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5400439004856

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-04-24

Number of Discs:

3

The oratorio Theodora was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre on 16 March 1750 and clearly took Londoners by surprise. Handel had, after all, made a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn in his choice of subject. The grandiose episodes of the Old Testament, the glorious struggles of Solomon, Saul, or Judas Maccabaeus are no more: the young martyr Theodora leads neither a community nor troops into battle. In a work far removed from the grand spectacle of biblical oratorios, Handel invites us to witness the poignant tale of a personal drama, a drama of the beginnings of Christianity fuelled by conscience, faith, and the heartbreak that they cause.

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