Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

Fagioli, though, is something else again. The full-spectrum tantrum of his final aria (“Crude furie degli 'orridi abissi”) became a quite spectacular hissy-fit. It climbed in a trice from ...

This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and ...