FUTURE PRODUCTIONS

2026

Titus L’Empéreur HWV A5 - London premiere

Reconstruction of the opera fragment by G. F. Handel

Thursday 5 March 2026, 7pm

St George's, Hanover Square, London

(2hrs 30mins)

Opera Settecento and their director, Leo Duarte, return to the London Handel Festival for a modern-day London premiere of Handel's abandoned opera Titus L'Empéreur. 

The incomplete libretto, modelled on Racine's tragedy Bérénice, has been adapted to the conventions of opera seria to produce a text that Handel himself would no doubt have been eager to set.

For this performance, the recitatives have been newly composed in a style that adheres as closely as possible to Handel's own, while the arias are drawn from his works written before 1732, the date of Handel’s incomplete manuscript. Opera Settecento is joined by an outstanding line-up of soloists, including two recent winners of the International Handel Singing Competition, for what will no doubt be one of the most distinctive events presented at the London Handel Festival.