Burlington Baroque - Handel's Israel in Egypt
Sun, Sep 20
|UVM Recital Hall
The two genres which really made George Frideric Handel a rock star in 18th century London were Opera and Oratorio. The Operas, which assured his fame, were staged theater events on secular and classical themes
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2026, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
UVM Recital Hall, 392 S Prospect St, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
About the event
Sunday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. Co-presented with the Lane Series in the UVM Recital Hall.
Pre-Concert Lecture at 1:15 p.m. by music journalist Benjamin Pomerance.
The two genres which really made George Frideric Handel a rock star in 18th century London were Opera and Oratorio. The Operas, which assured his fame, were staged theater events on secular and classical themes. The Oratorios, presented in concert without staging, were what occupied Handel during the season of Lent in which the performance of opera was proscribed. He wrote numerous of these large scale works mainly on Biblical subjects from the Hebrew Bible (a notable exception being, of course, MESSIAH.) After that most famous work, ISRAEL in EGYPT was one of his most popular works during his lifetime, presented more or less continually after writing it until his death. The work is extraordinary in that it contains an enormous number of choral movements,…