Handel: Il Caro Sassone / Handel in Italy

Soprano Lucy Crowe joins The English Concert led by Harry Bicket in this dazzling programme of Handel arias and cantatas dating from his 1706-10 sojourn in Italy, where he was affectionately dubbed ‘the dear Saxon’. 2nd in the 2005 Kathleen Ferrier and a Wigmore Young Artist, Lucy Crowe made her debuts with Scottish Opera as Sophie in 'Der Rosenkavalier' and ENO as Poppea in 'Agrippina', both to great critical acclaim. Other opera engagements include Susanna for Opera North, Drusilla in 'The Coronation of Poppea' for English National Opera and Nanetta in Verdi's 'Falstaff' for Scottish Opera. She made her debut at Covent Garden as Belinda in 'Dido and Aeneas' in 2009 and in the same year Sophie in 'Der Rosenkavalier', a role subsequently taken to the Bavarian State opera, and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. This year she made her US opera debut at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and 'The Fairy Queen' with William Christie at Glyndebourne.