As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

The rise and rise of Handel’s operas continues unabated. None was heard complete between his death in 1759 and the 1920s, yet now here they are in the repertory of every opera house – including this ...

Though written 300 years apart, two operas that will be presented by OrpheusPDX in August have a lot in common. The operas are adapted from stories that were written many, many years before: one by ...

Sinéad O’Neill’s production is persuasive and Beth Taylor’s performace as Orlando is extraordinary in this tale of unrequited love, madness and magic ...

PRINCETON — The pages sit there, looking somewhat faded and fragile. Several of them contain musical staves, with notes splashed across in dark black ink. One clue as to the genius within this rare ...

Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

Most people who experience George Frideric Handel’s operas do so as spectators, taking in the music and drama onstage from a comfy, velvet-wrapped seat in the audience. Conductor Jane Glover, however, ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Even if they have never heard of George Frideric Handel, most people are aware of the composer’s great Christmas and Easter oratorio, “Messiah,” or, at the ...

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 ...