Handel is now best known for his mighty oratorios. ‘Tis the season for Messiah. But he was late to that game, deep as he was into Italian opera, the blockbuster genre of the 18 th century and the one ...

Cambridge Handel Opera Company capture the self-referential charm of this mid-career novelty operetta Any opera with two pairs of young lovers inevitably gets compared to Così fan tutte. But in the ...

With its production of this work by Handel, the Cambridge Handel Opera Company can claim two distinctions: staging a rarely performed opera, and doing so in a Georgian-era venue that is infrequently ...

The annual Carnegie Hall visit of Harry Bicket and the English Concert, the superb period-instrument orchestra, is a required date for Handel opera fans. On Sunday, the ensemble presented “Hercules” ...

In 1731 Handel wrote part of Act I for an opera entitled Titus L’Empereur. For reasons that are still unknown, he then abandoned it, although he reworked its Overture and two arias for his next opera ...

Longborough Festival Opera occupies a special place in the summer opera calendar. Nestled in the Cotswolds, with glorious views over the Evenlode Valley, it is further (though hardly inaccessible) ...

It is Handel time at the Lobero Theatre again this weekend, as OSB stages Caesar and Cleopatra, an opera also known as Julius Caesar in Egypt or simply Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare), as a follow-up to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barrie Kosky directed Handel’s ‘Saul’ at Glyndebourne in 2025 - Bill Cooper Handel is now recognised as one of the great musical ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Forget the hushed silence of the concert hall and the formality of the balcony seat. This Sunday, Dec. 21, a live performance inspired by the Comedy Central show “Drunk History” will bring a ...

IT used to be a momentous year that brought to us one new impersonator of Tristan, and here it isn’t yet mid-season, and we’ve had two. One was a Tristan in evening clothes, Paul Alt-house, who sang ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of ...