NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Music lovers have many opportunities to hear performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorios, but his operas are rarely staged although occasionally performed in concert ...

Nights (and Afternoons) at the Opera / This is the fifth entry in a series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through April during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions at Hudson Hall. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone saw “Rodelinda” in Hudson, ...

A tale of love, power, and unwavering devotion, Handel’s Rodelinda is one of the Baroque era’s most emotionally compelling operas. Set in a kingdom torn by political upheaval, the queen, Rodelinda, is ...

Ruth Knight’s production captures the menace and high stakes in this deliciously devilish power struggle with Lucy Crowe whirling her sword like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Handel’s operas don’t stage ...

Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda and Nicholas Thurbin as Flavio - Alastair Muir Handel’s great 1725 opera Rodelinda is as confusing as any from the Baroque era, but underneath the shifting alliances there is a ...

The English National Opera's new production of Handel's romantic epic, Rodelinda, has opened at the Coliseum, London, to positive reviews. Written in 1725, Rodelinda is regarded as one of Handel's ...

Concert performance never hampers the Handel operas of Bicket's team, and the countertenor may well have suggested what happened here from his experience in Richard Jones's remarkable English National ...

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With more than 40 operas written over the space of some 30 years, and a vast number of choral and instrumental works, Handel has the reputation of having written more notes of music than anyone else.

The first revival of Richard Jones’s fascist-Italy-set production enjoys a strong cast, with Rebecca Evans outstanding in the title role. In its original 1724 form, Handel’s opera dealt with complex ...