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Nardus Williams
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The Four Humours

Nardus Williams soprano; Elizabeth Kenny lute

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Date
Mon 24 Nov 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £37 £33 £27 £18
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket

Important Information

Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 9 April at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.

General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Wednesday 23 April.

Artists

  • Nardus Williamssoprano
  • Elizabeth Kennylute

Programme

Black Bile
Phlegm
  • Henry Purcell
    1659-1695
      • While Thirsis, wrapt in downy sleep (A Pastoral Coronation Song) Z437

Interval

Yellow Bile
  • John Blow
    1649-1708
      • Amphion Anglicus
        :
      • Lysander, I pursue in vain (A Mad Song)
Blood
  • Anon
      • This merry pleasant spring

Overview

Nardus Williams, winner of the Rising Talent award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, dives headlong into the world of the Four Humours, physical properties believed to govern human behaviour from ancient times until the 1850s. Her programme encompasses arias by Settimia Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, among the first women to forge successful careers in music.

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