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This concert was live-streamed as part of the Autumn 2022 Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library

Two major cycles from the much admired mezzo and her distinguished pianist partner. A compelling stage performer, Christine Rice enjoys a career in major houses and concert halls, with a wealth of roles in her repertoire by Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Britten, Birtwistle, Adès and others. ‘Rice wrings your heart throughout,’ wrote Gramophone of her performance of the title-role in a DVD recording of Fiona Shaw’s production of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne, ‘and her self-lacerating final scenes have a harrowing immediacy.’