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 ...

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 so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroque master’s once-buried trove of The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of ...

Like so many artists after him, Handel’s big break in opera came from being in the right place at the right time. In 1704, the composer Reinhard Keiser abruptly left the theater in Hamburg for an ...

A BAROQUE opera featuring an internationally experienced cast and period-instrument orchestra is coming to Minchinhampton ...

Before turning to the choral compositions such as Messiah, for which he is best known today, a musicologist produced a string of Italian-language operas that vied for audiences in the ...

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 ...

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.

Handel’s operas, once exotic rarities, have become more familiar in recent years. However, due to the structure of American opera houses, with their permanent orchestras, it is rare to hear them ...

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...