Gluck - PARIS AND HELEN

Paride ed Elena, a music drama in five acts
Libretto by Raniero de’Calzabigi, English translation by Gilly French
First performance, 3 November 1770, Burgtheater, Vienna

Friday 24 September: St John’s Smith Square, London

“Ill-fated as we are, we’ll become the theme of songs by those as yet unborn”
(Helen, in Homer’s Iliad)

Paris Ella Taylor
Helen Lucy Anderson
Amor Lauren Lodge-Campbell
Pallas Athene Lisa Howarth

ConductorThomas Blunt
Director Jeremy Gray

CHROMA
violin 1 Charlotte Bonneton (leader), Natasha Humphries, Elspeth McLeod
violin 2 Clara Biss, Katherine Roberts
viola Bridget Carey, Katie Heller
cello Colin Alexander
bass Adam Wynter
flute Sarah O'Flynn
oboe Jessica Mogridge
oboe Lydia Griffiths
bassoon Helen Storey
horn Richard Steggall, Richard Bayliss
trumpet Heidi Bennett, Alex Caldon
timps Steve Gibson
harp Alex Rider

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