His operatic repertoire encompasses major roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Puccini and Richard Strauss and also more contemporary works by Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Britten. He has toured with The Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, The Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh, and with The King’s Consort. She has worked with many of the most promient conductors including David Willcocks, Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Simon Rattle, as well as operatic roles with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Kent Opera and Opera de Lyon.Īndrew’s extensive concert career includes performances throughout Britain and Europe and at the BBC Proms. Her solo engagements have included appearances at many of the UK’s top concert venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, Snape Maltings, the Royal Albert Hall and at the BBC Proms. One of the first female choral scholars at Trinity, Cambridge, Susanna is a highly experienced concert singer. Recent performances have also taken her to Snape Maltings and to London to St Martin in the Fields, The Temple Church and Greenwich Theatre as well as recital work in France and she has also given a live recital on Classic FM. The epic nature of the story is the perfect subject to showcase Handel’s genius for story-telling and drama.Īn 80-strong chorus from City of Bristol Choir is joined by an impressive line up of soloists, together with Bristol’s professional chamber orchestra the Emerald Ensemble, all under the expert direction of David Ogden.Īn unmissable evening’s entertainment in the superb acoustic of St George’s concert hall in Clifton, Bristol.Ĭharlotte is well known to audiences in Bristol and the South West as a concert soloist and recitalist. All are brilliantly realised for soloists, choir and full orchestra in a series of incisive arias and choruses following Moses and the Children of Israel through the events of the Exodus. The work features virtuosic double choruses showcasing some of Handel’s most colourful music telling tales of plagues of hailstones and lightning, buzzing flies and leaping frogs. In this great oratorio, the chorus takes the starring role in telling the Biblical story of the Hebrews’ escape from oppression and slavery in Egypt. Handel’s Israel in Egypt is a dramatic and passionate work featuring five vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra.
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