Millenium Orchestra * Handel: Theodora [New CD] 4/28/15 "Between Eusebius and Florestan"

"Between Eusebius and Florestan"

L'alouette Des Champs

Nuala Kennedy

Venti Quietatevi E Contentatevi

he finds his ideal partners

Millenium Orchestra * Handel: Theodora [New CD] 4/28/15 "Between Eusebius and Florestan"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