A lively festival in a vibrant Derbyshire spa town, Buxton International Festival has a strong tradition of staging both ...
Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a cardiologist convention and absolutely gorgeous singing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Think of the graceful melody known as Handel’s Largo, from the composer’s 1738 opera Serse (Xerxes). This is music calculated to melt the heart, with its stately descending phrase — “Ombra mai fu” — ...
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 ...
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