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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Friday night's performance of Handel's RODELINDA sometimes seemed like it was never going to end--it was quickly approaching the witching hour by the time the curtain calls were over, having ...

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.

For 11 seasons, Handel aficionados have turned to performances at the Handel Week Festival in Oak Park to satiate musical cravings no other organization in the Chicago area is satisfying in quite the ...

ABC Classics is proud to release a new live recording of highlights from Handel’s rarely heard opera Rodelinda, with legendary Australian conductor Richard Bonynge. Rodelinda contains everything one ...

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, ...

Rodelinda Britten Theatre three stars Michael Church Transplanting Handel’s ‘Rodelinda’ from corrupt, fragmented, seventh-century Italy to corrupt, fragmented, twenty-first century Italy works neatly.

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 ...

Opera companies take a risk when they stage a brand-new work. But it’s just as risky to introduce audiences to operas of the early 18th century. Virginia Opera has taken that bold step in recent years ...