(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Semele has a problem. She has fallen for Jupiter, the king of the gods, and he for her, but if she asks for the ...

Nights (and Afternoons) at the Opera / This is the fifth entry in a series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through April during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

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 ...

Handel: Arias from Alcina, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare and Serse Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras, conductor (Forlane). This generally appealing recital ...

Fresh, funny and frivolous, Handel’s 1730 opera Partenope about four suitors vying for the hand of Queen Partenope (the ...

This is a Handel year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. We remember George Frideric Handel primarily for his oratorio, "Messiah," one of the greatest masterpieces in the classical canon.

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 ...

Although Handel's opera "Julius Caesar," known as "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in its native tongue of Italian, is regarded one of his greatest works for the stage, it went out of fashion just like the ...

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 very least, its Hallelujah Chorus. But ...

GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz tells us a story about a singer he discovered only a few months ago without realizing he ...