Of the 42 operas that prolific German composer George Friedrich Handel produced over his long career, one of the most ...

October’s production of Alcina at Seattle Opera shows off Handel at his most enchanting. Showcasing this opera’s wonderful melodies, strong characters, and vocal pyrotechnics for the first time on the ...

Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...

How eactly did Milwaukee Opera Theatre come to be performing Handel's Baroque opera "Alcina" in the vintage shop Dandy? It began, MOT Producing Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik said in a phone ...

George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, which opened at Santa Fe Opera on Saturday night, is a fantasy about how people distinguish deception from reality when they are enchanted by love and magic. Whether ...

George Frideric Handel composed the opera seria, ALCINA, for a 1735 premiere at the London's Theatre Royal. Handel's anonymous librettist based his text on Riccardo Broschi's 1728 Roman libretto for L ...

Freebie(s) of the week: San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens Festival offers an interesting mix of free shows Thursday and ...

When the curtain came down on the first night of the Royal Opera’s fantastical new staging of Alcina, I was of the opinion that every opera production from now on should contain an angry, dancing ...

What a triumph: Seattle Opera conclusively proved that it can handle Handel, with a superb new staging of the composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina,” running through Oct. 28. Rarely do operagoers get to savor ...

Every once in a while, someone decides to start a new opera company. It's the most labor-intensive, and therefore expensive, of the performing arts, so rarely does the effort last long. But the ...