Collegium Vocale Gent & Daucé

28 Feb.'26
- 20:00

Händel. Alceste

Handel fans will be spoiled for choice in the ’25-’26 season with an extensive focus on the Baroque composer. Handel entered into service at the British court in 1712, where he would provide background music for royal festivities for almost half a century. Shortly after coming to court, he composed the Birthday Ode for Queen Anna, with the intimate duet between the soprano and trumpet Eternal Source of Light Divine as a promising hint of what was to come. Alceste, a grand extravaganza of music, drama and visual effects, was composed at the end of his career. Even without the overall spectacle, this music stimulates our senses. The conductor Sébastien Daucé will not be standing in front of his familiar Ensemble Correspondances this time. Instead, he will reveal both the tenderness and the exuberance in Handel with Collegium Vocale Gent and top musicians including Guy Cutting.  

Collegium Vocale Gent
vocal ensemble and orchestra
Sébastien Daucé
conductor
Manon Lamaison
soprano
Alex Potter
alto
Guy Cutting
tenor
Florian Störtz
bass
Programme
George Frideric Handel

Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74

George Frideric Handel

Alceste, HWV 45

Concerts

Vocal music

2025-2026

Operas & Oratorios

Concerts

2025-2026

Belgian Orchestras

Concerts

2025-2026

George Frideric Handel

Practical information

Location

Henry Le Boeuf Hall

Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS

Rates

MyBozar Card

24 - 33 - 42

< 26 MyBozar Card

16 - 22 - 28

Standard

32 - 44 - 56

< 26 year

22 - 31 - 39

Card : Preferential Reimbursement / EU Disability

16 - 22 - 28