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 ...

Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce DiDonato ...

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711 as ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. CHICAGO -- The discourse of war is interminable. Twenty-five hundred ...

Opera Atelier announces the anticipated new date for the online presentation of Handel's The Resurrection - fully-staged and filmed at St. Lawrence Hall, in strict compliance with provincial health ...

What a year 1707 was. In that year, two 22-year old German composers wrote some of their most precocious and important vocal music, pieces that to this day remain central to the repertoire. One of the ...

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.

Opera Santa Barbara opens the new year with its third company premiere of the season: a 90-minute adaptation of Handel’s comedy “Semele,” set in Hollywood’s silent movie era. Performances take place ...

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds Few will challenge Alcina’s claims to contain ...

Half Italian, half Tunbridge Wells, Freddie De Tommaso is a sensational Cavaradossi. Elsewhere, there’s maximum Messiah uplift ...