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 ...

One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent Garden and has not been seen there since – ...

With its Chicago debut of Handel’s 1715 opera seria “Amadigi di Gaula,” Haymarket Opera Company has closed a circle, and done so with all the virtues that have made the period-instrument troupe so ...

As timeless as Shakespeare plays, Handel operas shine through the centuries, whether the cast is clad in period costumes or trendy black leather – whether the set is Hampton Court or Club Med.

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.

The operatic masterpieces of Handel have finally begun to take their rightful place in the repertoire of major American companies, but perhaps not quite fast enough for the young and self-motivated.

Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...

Though written 300 years apart, two operas that will be presented by OrpheusPDX in August have a lot in common. The operas are adapted from stories that were written many, many years before: one by ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

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