Haymarket Opera presents Clori, Tirsi e Fileno by George Frideric Handel

The Haymarket Opera Company presents the Chicago premiere of Handel's comic cantata from 1707. Two shepherds are in love with a fickle shepherdess who tries in vain to outsmart them. Scored for three high voices and full orchestra, including the seldom-heard archlute, this pastoral cantata contains some of Handel's finest arias and duets which he later recycled in such "hits" as Agrippina, Rinaldo, and Acis and Galatea.

Craig Trompeter, Music Director

Ellen Hargis, Stage Director in Residence

David Mayernik, Set Designer

Meriem Bahri, Costume Designer

Eric Peterson, Lighting Designer

Starring

Alison Wahl, soprano, as Clori

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, as Tirsi

Angela Young Smucker, mezzo soprano, as Fileno