BBC Proms Aberdeen
Nardus Williams, Dame Mary Beard & Elizabeth Kenny
‘I Never Laid Eyes On Aeneas’ – Women’s Stories From The Ancient World
A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance also includes discussion on the themes of women’s voices in antiquity, and their echoes in later culture.
Programme to include music by Blow, F. Caccini, Handel and Purcell.
Image: Nardus Williams, photo credit Bertie Watson