SEATTLE – Speight Jenkins is a man who hears voices. The general director of Seattle Opera is regarded for his ability to uncover opera talent, and when he encounters a great singer, he figures out ...

The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

Giulio Cesare or Julius Carsar is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola ...

Season opening show marks a return to indoor productions. After an intense battle with a bitter rival during the Roman civil war, Julius Caesar moves toward Egypt with his head held high but more than ...

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 ...

In the old days, record companies offered you an opera in a box set. But they also offered you a highlights album: a single LP. You know the problem with Handel’s Julius Caesar? It is, basically, ...

Six decades ago, opera companies began to revive musical dramas by Handel, but it was not until 2002 that San Diego Opera got in the game with “Ariodante.” In the years since, San Diego Opera has ...

The Detroit Opera House was the most glamorous venue in town on opening night of "Julius Caesar." Michigan Opera Theatre presented an unconventional production by Handel. It enlisted countertenor ...