Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

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 ...

Fagioli, though, is something else again. The full-spectrum tantrum of his final aria (“Crude furie degli 'orridi abissi”) became a quite spectacular hissy-fit. It climbed in a trice from ...

Let’s talk about adapting opera. I have no problem with a director deciding to abridge a Shakespeare play for performance, or even to modernize its language. I also have no problem when cuts are made ...

While the two sopranos were of similar vivacious ilk – Mary Bevan’s Atalanta (pictured below with Harry Bicket at the harpsichord, superb cellist Joseph Crouch and star theorbist Sergio Bucheli to the ...

To launch its "Opera Up Close" series, Cleveland Opera Theater and Baldwin Wallace University took a production of Handel's "Serse" to the Arcade in Cleveland in November 2016. (Meghan Bremmer/Baldwin ...

Always there is the claim that opera directors need to “breathe new life” into classic works through updatings and reinterpretations. But as the last 50 years of such events have shown, the life ...

This production comes from the Dresden Music Festival of 2000 The stage director is Michael Hampe who was behind the similarly excellent Schwetzingen Agrippina from 1985 also released on a EuroArts ...

This year marked the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), and musical hallelujahs rang out around the world, as choral societies, professional and amateur, trotted out ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The English Concert’s performance at Carnegie Hall showed off the ensemble’s elastic responsiveness. By Oussama Zahr If you eat up ...