Handel Birthday Concert

Join us to celebrate Handel’s musical legacy with an opera inspired by the alleged adventures of Giacomo Girolomo Casanova (1725-1798) and given new life in a libretto by Stephen Pettitt. With music by Handel, Vivaldi & their contemporaries arranged by Julian Perkins, David Wilson-Johnson as ‘Old Casanova’ narrates the scenes – his early seduction by a young woman, his meetings with the rich and influential, his escape from a notorious Venetian prison – and the touching tale of what was, perhaps, his one true love affair. Was he unlucky in love, after all? If Handel had known of Casanova he would surely have written an opera!

William Towers is ‘Young Casanova’ and other characters in the story will be sung by Augusta Hebbert, Anna Starushkevych and Andrew Davies. Julian Perkins directs Sounds Baroque.

Tickets: £75 including music, wine, buffet

Contact: Lily Beaumont on 020 7520 0344

Email: events@coram.org.uk

Founded in 1739, Coram is the UK’s first children’s charity. Since then, Coram has been helping to transform the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in our local communities. We give children the chance of a better, brighter future. We’re still based on the same historic site.

In our earliest years Coram helped children left abandoned on the streets of London. Our patrons included the artist Hogarth and the composer Handel, whilst Charles Dickens also based books and characters on our work.

The challenges children face today are far more diverse than in the days of Handel or Dickens. So we now help children in many different ways – right across the UK.  We help children to feel safe and loved; we help children to lead healthier lives; we support their education and learning; we protect their legal rights when these are in danger of being ignored; and we strengthen families to help children thrive.

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Coram Life Education is the UK’s largest school-based healthy living programme. It reaches over 700,000 primary school-aged children in thousands of schools nationwide.

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