Saturday 30 August 2025 at 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Handel’s Alexander’s Feast

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Proms presents: Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’

Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, praised for their ‘stylish verve’ and ‘rich insight and charisma’, make their Proms debut with a Handel rarity that celebrates the power of music itself. Alexander’s Feast is an oratorio of operatic intensity, setting John Dryden’s poem about the musician Timotheus, who stirs Alexander the Great to destructive revenge. The piece is heard for the first time at the Proms in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742. 

Programme

Handel Alexander’s Feast (1742 version) 107’

(sung in English)

Hilary Cronin soprano, Hugh Cutting counter-tenor, Stuart Jackson tenor

Irish Baroque Chorus, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan conductor

There will be one interval