BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 41: Handel's Belshazzar - Prom 41 - Part 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Charles Mackerras conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and an international cast in Handel's oratorio Belshazzar. With a libretto by Charles Jennens (who wrote the text for Saul and Messiah), the work is based on the Old Testament story of the downfall of the Babylonian king. Handel: Belshazzar (Act 1) Belshazzar ...... Paul Groves Nitocris ...... Rosemary Joshua Cyrus ...... Bejun Mehta Daniel ...... Iestyn Davies Gobrias ...... Robert Gleadow Choir of the Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Charles Mackerras (conductor).