Handel Susanna - Barbican

about the performers
David DQ Lee countertenor
The award-winning countertenor
David DQ Lee is a singer of great
versatility, performing repertoire
ranging from Baroque to
contemporary, and jazz to opera. He
regularly appears with leading
orchestras and opera companies and
has worked with such conductors as
Andrey Boreyko, Sergiu Comissiona,
Christoph Eschenbach, Edoardo
Müller, Carlos Miguel Prieto and
Timothy Vernon.
Among highlights of this season are
Death in Venice in Hamburg, Giulio
Cesare in Düsseldorf and Dresden, a
new production of The Coronation of
Poppaea in Cologne as well as the
current tour of Susanna. He has also
recently performed Handel’s
Belshazzar in concert in Pamplona
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under Martin Haselböck and in a new
production of Vivaldi’s Orlando
furioso in Basle, conducted by Andrea
Marcon.
In 2008 his Handel roles included
Arcane in a new production of Teseo
for the Komische Oper Berlin under
Alessandro de Marchi, David
(Belshazzar) at the Halle Handel
Festival under Haselböck, and
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
in Utrecht, conducted by Kenneth
Montgomery. He also sang Ruggiero
(Orlando furioso) under Marcon at the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In the concert hall David DQ Lee has
performed many works by Handel,
including Semele, Israel in Egypt, Saul,
Joshua and Messiah, sacred choral
works by Vivaldi, Bach’s Christmas
Oratorio, Orff’s Carmina Burana,
Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and
Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to
Music, the latter for a gala concert at
the Ravinia Festival.
He has released a solo disc, Arianna
a Naxos, as well as appearing on a
CD of Bach cantatas with Montréal
Baroque.
Abdellah Lasri
Emmanuelle de Negri soprano
The soprano Emmanuelle de Negri
initially studied cello, before entering
the Nîmes Conservatoire, where she
developed her singing, focusing
particularly on Mozart and Rossini. This
was followed by studies at the Paris
Conservatoire, working simultaneously
on bel canto and Baroque repertoire
where she won first prize for her final
recital. She recently completed the
conservatoire’s postgraduate
programme, studying with Susan
Manoff and Olivier Reboul.
On stage Emmanuelle de Negri has
sung Barbarina (The Marriage of
Figaro), Cupid (Offenbach’s Orpheus
in the Underworld), Yniold (Pelléas et
Mélisande), Tonina (Salieri’s Prima la
musica poi le parole), Elena (Cavalli’s
Ercole amante), Serpetta (Mozart’s