LONDON — More than most art forms, opera demands a suspension of disbelief. For a long time, this included accepting that a man could sing with the voice of a woman. It was not a natural gift, but the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Even if they have never heard of George Frideric Handel, most people are aware of the composer’s great Christmas and Easter oratorio, “Messiah,” or, at the ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. CHICAGO -- The discourse of war is interminable. Twenty-five hundred ...

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 ...

The Curtis Opera Theatre's 2022-23 season concludes May 4 through May 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Perlman Theater in the Kimmel Center with George Frideric Handel's riveting tale of obsession, desire, and ...

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 ...

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711 as ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

Alcina is a sorceress seeking love, when Ruggiero arrives on her magic island she charms him into adoring her without measure In the Israeli Opera rehearsal room, soprano Yael Levita (Alcina) and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alcina, a beautiful enchantress with a habit of turning people who annoy her into animals and inanimate ...

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds Few will challenge Alcina’s claims to contain ...