Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...

As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

Musicologist and Handel scholar John Roberts realized almost immediately that the manuscript he was examining was a new cantata by one of the Baroque masters. A visit by Dutch conductor and early ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra is presenting a program called Stolen. Husband and wife Richard Stone and Gwyn Roberts are the ensemble's co-founders and ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music is a form of prayer. George Frideric Handel, a more worldly fellow, a composer of operas, wrote sacred music to entertain. Bach’s sacred music is easy to admire; ...

Sunday Baroque is welcoming 2026 this weekend with some of the greatest hits of the baroque era. The beloved favorites ...

Enjoy Handel, Bach, Pachelbel, and Vivaldi in a bright, uplifting Baroque Masters program that highlights the full sparkle of ...

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Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

The annual Pacific Baroque Festival, which begins Feb. 19, has always struck a balance between the neglected and the familiar. Several recent festivals were devoted to repertoire that is hardly over- ...

Beethoven adored him, calling him "the greatest composer that ever lived," while Tchaikovsky dismissed him as "fourth rate." Despite those mixed reviews, George Frideric Handel lives on as one of the ...