Harry Bicket and the English Concert presented the composer’s highly theatrical but little-known 1745 oratorio in an uneven but frequently arresting performance.

In preparing to direct Handel’s rarely staged Imeneo for Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC), I have been fascinated to reflect on the periods of surging interest decline in the history of opera.

If you’re thinking of the muscle-bound hero of action films—or even Disney animation—boy, have you got the wrong HERCULES. As ...

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 ...

A rare manuscript of George Frideric Handel’s 1736 opera “Berenice,” purchased by the University for 44,450 British pounds at an auction last November, will be available for viewing at a special ...

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 ...

The Atlanta Opera announced that it is closing out its 2024-2025 season with a visually-stunning new production of George Frideric Handel’s Semele. Created by Handel in the 1700s, Semele is a ...

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 ...

At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song ...

The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits. By Arya Roshanian R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” ...

Houston Grand Opera will open Handel's Messiah, arranged by Mozart, in the first performances of the oratorio in company ...