Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Overture a group of children are playing innocently when a couple of the boys engage in a mock ...

Some 290 years on, Handel’s Ariodante is back in Covent Garden, but it had lain fallow for 228 of those before a late 20th century revival in interest. In reading of its history, you gain the ...

There’s a top-notch cast and detailed work from all involved in Jetske Mijnssen’s production that reframes Handel’s opera as a modern family psychodrama. Handel was at the top of his game when he ...

With the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, the highly compelling performance is likely to be even stronger on subsequent ...

With performances of Handel's "Messiah" as common as mistletoe around the Bay Area each year, fans of the beloved sacred ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a special compilation titled ...

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Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński is mobilized for operatic stardom, and then some. Microphones love his richly colored falsetto voice, magazine covers like his looks.And behind a dense schedule of ...

Inaugurated in 1973, the Sydney Opera House is a great architectural work of the 20th century that brings together multiple strands of creativity and innovation in both architectural form and ...

One of Handel ’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent Garden and has not been seen there since – until now. That is both a reflection of how fashionable the Baroque ...

Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127) for voice and orchestra, RV.608 ...