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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Overture a group of children are playing innocently when a couple of the boys engage in a mock ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Opera Atelier announces the anticipated new date for the online presentation of Handel's The Resurrection - fully-staged and filmed at St. Lawrence Hall, in strict compliance with provincial health ...

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 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

After his unforgettable solo recital Wednesday, violinist Augustin Hadelich returned Sunday for Aspen Music Festival’s final concert. Good thing, too. His performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto No.

Handel’s Semele is one of those works that refuses to sit neatly in a box. First staged at Covent Garden in 1744, it was billed as a “new oratorio” to slip past London’s strict Lenten ban on opera.