NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Music lovers have many opportunities to hear performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorios, but his operas are rarely staged although occasionally performed in concert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda and Nicholas Thurbin as Flavio - Alastair Muir Handel's great 1725 opera Rodelinda is as confusing as any ...

Handel composed Rodelinda for the Royal Academy of Music -- a venture the composer helped to launch in London, with his own operas as one of its main drawing cards. Rodelinda was first performed at ...

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 ...

R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions at Hudson Hall. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone saw “Rodelinda” in Hudson, ...

Ruth Knight’s production captures the menace and high stakes in this deliciously devilish power struggle with Lucy Crowe whirling her sword like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Handel’s operas don’t stage ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Each year The English Concert presents a Handel opera in concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, and on tour. Last ...

The English National Opera's new production of Handel's romantic epic, Rodelinda, has opened at the Coliseum, London, to positive reviews. Written in 1725, Rodelinda is regarded as one of Handel's ...

With more than 40 operas written over the space of some 30 years, and a vast number of choral and instrumental works, Handel has the reputation of having written more notes of music than anyone else.

ABC Classics is proud to release a new live recording of highlights from Handel’s rarely heard opera Rodelinda, with legendary Australian conductor Richard Bonynge. Rodelinda contains everything one ...

A tale of love, power, and unwavering devotion, Handel’s Rodelinda is one of the Baroque era’s most emotionally compelling operas. Set in a kingdom torn by political upheaval, the queen, Rodelinda, is ...