Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This historical revival of Handel's Serse particularly emphasises the humorous ...
Monumentalised by the Victorians as Handel’s Largo, Ombra mai fu is the opening number in his opera Serse, and for all its ironic touches — the object of Xerxes’ veneration is a plane tree — has to be ...