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 ...

When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria ...

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 ...

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.

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The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroque master’s once-buried trove of The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of ...

MOST of us associate the air commonly known as “Handel’s Largo” with heavy-footed organists, condescending conductors, loggy contraltos, soppy boy sopranos, intermission at the movies, and ...

The Los Angeles Opera bills its current production of Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" as a summit meeting of three countertenors, the first time in the modern era that many specialists in that ...