Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This historical revival of Handel's Serse particularly emphasises the humorous ...

Always there is the claim that opera directors need to “breathe new life” into classic works through updatings and reinterpretations. But as the last 50 years of such events have shown, the life ...

Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

Fagioli, though, is something else again. The full-spectrum tantrum of his final aria (“Crude furie degli 'orridi abissi”) became a quite spectacular hissy-fit. It climbed in a trice from ...

Let’s talk about adapting opera. I have no problem with a director deciding to abridge a Shakespeare play for performance, or even to modernize its language. I also have no problem when cuts are made ...

While the two sopranos were of similar vivacious ilk – Mary Bevan’s Atalanta (pictured below with Harry Bicket at the harpsichord, superb cellist Joseph Crouch and star theorbist Sergio Bucheli to the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The English Concert’s performance at Carnegie Hall showed off the ensemble’s elastic responsiveness. By Oussama Zahr If you eat up ...

Serse-- Handel’s comic opera "Serse" (Xerxes) is notable on several accounts. It is his last opera. In it, Handel gave up the old-fashioned A-B-A aria, which went on forever. Also, yes, this is the ...

This is a Handel year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. We remember George Frideric Handel primarily for his oratorio, "Messiah," one of the greatest masterpieces in the classical canon.