ELIAS Felix Mendelssohn DIDO AND AENEAS Henry Purcell (1659 −1695) A EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS Romantic settings from across Europe PARSIFAL Richard Wagner (1813 −1883) NIGHT WATCH Music and poetry from the age of Romanticism L’ORFEO Claudio Monteverdi (1567−1643) NIOBE, REGINA DI TEBE Agostino Steffani (1654 −1728) ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE Christoph W. Gluck (1714 −1787) KING ARTHUR Henry Purcell (1659−1695) METAMORPHOSES OF MELANCHOLY FESTA TEATRALE Italian carnival music from the seventeenth century
