Cleopatra, Rodelinda, Alcina, Agrippina: in “Mirrors”, Jeanine De Bique sets Handel’s heroines alongside their counterparts as imagined by Graun, Telemann, Vinci and Broschi. A hall of mirrors between characters, composers and emotions, captured at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival with Concerto Köln. 
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With Mirrors, Jeanine De Bique offers far more than a recital of Baroque arias. The Trinidadian soprano places different musical incarnations of the same heroines – or comparable dramatic situations – side by side in works by Handel and his contemporaries. Developed around her first solo album, released by Berlin Classics in 2021, the programme was performed in September 2022 at Bayreuth’s Markgräfliches Opernhaus with Concerto Köln, led by violinist Yves Ytier.
Handel and his contemporaries
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