When I was at school our music teacher was also the organist and choir master at the local church and at the end of every ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation 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 ...

The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...

Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

What a year 1707 was. In that year, two 22-year old German composers wrote some of their most precocious and important vocal music, pieces that to this day remain central to the repertoire. One of the ...

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 ...

“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God” and singing Handel’s Messiah. Though cynics may snarl “But who may abide the day of His coming?” they will be a ...