Conductor Lisa Jablow, like many Vermonters, doesn’t consider herself religious. And yet, “Messiah,” Handel’s musical telling ...

English National Opera has released new production photos for PARTENOPE, returning to the London Coliseum from 20 November to ...

A new trade body representing the UK’s opera sector – UK Opera Association (UKOA) – launches today, bringing togetheropera companies to strengthen the future of opera and ensure the art form continues ...

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

We proudly present the latest of three live presentations from this year's Wexford Festival Opera - Deidamia by George Frideric Handel, live from the O'Reilly Theatre, National Opera House. Watch ...

The English Concert performed George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo at the Zhongshan Park Concert Hall on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Beijing audiences were treated to a night of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raise a cheer for Benjamin Britten. Faced with the challenge of performing opera in an austerity-stricken ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Premiered in 1774, Semele is the latest in the Royal Opera House's series of Handel operas and ...

Handel’s long-lost opera turns out to be a winner While these days Handel is regarded as good box office, for well over 200 years, no one anywhere performed this 1737 work. But under the direction of ...

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.

A tale of love, power, and unwavering devotion, Handel’s Rodelinda is one of the Baroque era’s most emotionally compelling operas. Set in a kingdom torn by political upheaval, the queen, Rodelinda, is ...

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 ...