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 ...
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 greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent ...
NEW YORK — When talk turns to whether the Metropolitan Opera should put on old works — like 1709 old — habits die hard. The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in ...
Confronting the audience at the outset of Oliver Mears’ challenging new production of Handel’s Semele is an unappealing grate cover, the sinister purpose of which is only gradually revealed. The ...
Some 290 years on, Handel’s Ariodante is back in Covent Garden, but it had lain fallow for 228 of those before a late 20th century revival in interest. In reading of its history, you gain the ...
The work of Handel has already become the backbone of the orchestra, both in our annual Handel opera or oratorio that we tour all over the world ending in Carnegie Hall, as well as in our recordings ...
At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song ...