On Saturday, December 27 at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's special compilation broadcast of music by George Frideric ...

Though written 300 years apart, two operas that will be presented by OrpheusPDX in August have a lot in common. The operas are adapted from stories that were written many, many years before: one by ...

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 ...

IN THE ASTOUNDING LEGACY OF HANDEL operas that now, at long last, assumes its rightful place on world stages, Rodelinda stands apart. It deals not with gods, magicians and philandering Roman generals ...

MALVERN (Reuters) - Ken Allcock, 66, had never seen an opera and his wife Eileen hadn't been in about 50 years, but both were enchanted by Handel's "Tolomeo," brought to their hometown of Malvern by ...

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...