Afternoon on 3 - Ulster Orchestra Summer Series - Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

Handel Operas 2009 Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Giustino, which concludes with the meteoric rise of the peasant Giustino. He has captured and imprisoned the rebel Vitaliano, but the final act opens with Vitaliano's escape from prison. Handel: Giustino (Act 3) Giustino ...... Michael Chance (countertenor) Arianna ...... Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) Anastasio ...... Dawn Kotoski (soprano) Leocasta ...... Jennifer Lane (contralto) Vitaliano ...... Mark Padmore (tenor) Amanzio ...... Drew Minter (countertenor) Fortuna ...... Juliana Gondek (soprano) Polidarte ...... Dean Ely (bass-baritone) Halle Cantamus Chorus Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan (conductor) 3.15pm Ulster Orchestra Summer Series The Ulster Orchestra play music by Northern Ireland composer Stephen Gardner, and Dublin pianist Finghin Collins joins them in Faure's Ballade. The series concludes with the broadcast premiere of Debussy's Le gladiateur, a cantata telling the dramatic story about the life of a young gladiator, Narbal. The work won Debussy the second prize in the 1883 Prix de Rome, but the orchestral score remained in the collections of the National Library of France for more than a century, being neither published nor played. Le gladiateur had its first professional performance in modern times at the Ulster Hall in Belfast in August 2009, from a new first edition of the score by Thibault Perrine. D'Indy: Tableaux de voyage Ulster Orchestra Rumon Gamba (conductor) Stephen Gardner: The Shipyard Ulster Orchestra Rumon Gamba (conductor) 3.40pm Faure: Ballade, Op 19 Finghin Collins (piano) Ulster Orchestra Rumon Gamba (conductor) Bizet: L'Arlesienene Suite No 1 Ulster Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor) 4.25pm Debussy: Le gladiateur (broadcast premiere) Claire Ormshaw (soprano) Robin Tritschler (tenor) Thorbjorn Gulbrandsoy (baritone) Ulster Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor).