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 ...

With its Chicago debut of Handel’s 1715 opera seria “Amadigi di Gaula,” Haymarket Opera Company has closed a circle, and done so with all the virtues that have made the period-instrument troupe so ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

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 ...

As part of the Berkeley Early Music Festival’s Fringe events, William Ludtke’s Handel Opera Project presented Handel’s opera Semele on Saturday, June 11, at 2:30 in The First Church of Christ, Science ...

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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 ...

A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent ...

The operatic masterpieces of Handel have finally begun to take their rightful place in the repertoire of major American companies, but perhaps not quite fast enough for the young and self-motivated.