Try Me, Good King
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£12
£6 students
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Try Me, Good King
Step into the Tudor court for an evocative evening of storytelling and song in Try Me, Good King - a semi-staged concert bringing to life the extraordinary tales of Henry VIII’s six wives.
At its heart is Libby Larsen’s compelling song cycle Try Me, Good King, “a group of five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Howard”.
Interwoven through this haunting work are songs by Henry VIII, Claudin de Sermisy, Anne Boleyn, contemporary composer Alec Roth and the premiere of a new commission by Christopher Churcher.
With a narrator to guide us through the drama, history and music intertwine in an eclectic mix of early and modern sound-worlds to explore the lives, loves and fates of six iconic women, and to give fresh voice to the historical figures who immortalised in the rhyme: Divorced, beheaded died. Divorced, beheaded survived…
Forthcoming events in RBC Musicians
Forthcoming dates include:
John Coltrane 100th Anniversary Concert and Symposium
Fri 25 Sep 2026 - 2.30pm