Opposing potentates make Handel’s masterpiece a matter of life and death Countertenor James Laing is making a speciality of Tamerlano – the historical Timur and the Tamburlaine of Christopher ...

There are glorious and nuanced performances in a new recording of this lesser-known Handel opera, courtesy of Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company It’s odd that Handel’s Amadigi isn’t better ...

Hallelujah! This week, the composer whose music illuminated Georgian London, and who refined the art of bringing emotion alive in works that still resonate for us today A German composer who brought ...

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 ...

Handel's Partenope is one of his least often performed operas, but superb singing at the London Coliseum shows how glorious the music truly is. Thanks to excellent singing from a very talented small ...

In Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera Alcina the eponymous enchantress presides over a realm of hedonism in which former lovers have been turned into wild beasts. Richard Jones’s endlessly inventive ...

20:48, Wed, Jul 26, 2023 Updated: 17:39, Thu, Jul 27, 2023 Despite being packed with glorious music by Handel, Semele has not been seen at Glyndebourne before. With some 45 Handel operas to choose ...

Garsington Opera’s new production of Handel’s Rodelinda has it all – it’s a feast of glorious singing, brilliant production and the most accomplished orchestral performance you could ever hope to hear ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera is often ridiculed for its twisted plotlines. Sometimes they can be unpicked quite easily, but the plot of Handel’s Alcina is truly complicated. We are on an enchanted island (in 1735, they ...