A King’s Lament is a programme of operatic selections composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) exploring infatuation with Royalty and exoticism in the eighteenth century. Territories abroad, and the men that ruled them, were of particular interest to the opera-going public in London in the 1700’s. Elements of glamorous and exotic grandeur found their way onto the stage and into Handel’s music to represent these larger-than-life Kings and their stories of intense tribulation.