Acis & Galatea

With Beson Choral Society

Handel’s Acis and Galatea is a tale concerning transient love, beauty and jealousy, and is told through music that encompasses the joyful and the melancholic. Handel’s first dramatic work in the English language, the story follows the nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis, their love and adoration for each other, and the envious giant Polyphemus who threatens their happiness.

The opera was first performed in 1718, and was so popular that by the middle of the 18th century it had been staged seventy times.

Anastasia Bevan (soprano)
Dominic Bevan (tenor)
William Searle (tenor)
Ben Davies (bass)

Benson Choral Society

Instruments of Time and Truth

Thomas Neal (conductor)