Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s ...

Tom Service with the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend! Tom meets conductor Nathalie Stutzmann to chat about her ...

This year, they celebrate the holiday season with one of the most beloved works of Baroque music, Handel's Messiah. For more information, please read the full content on this page. Seduction, ambition ...

To get a handle on Handel, go to the Handel Hendrix House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB. Here you will find a wonderful homage to two of the greatest musicians of all time: George Frideric Handel ...

The Atlanta Opera (TAO) closed their 2024-25 mainstage season with Georg Frideric Handel’s 1744 semi-oratorio, or quasi-opera, “Semele.” General Director Tomer Zvulun structured the season around ...

“A live performance is another leap of faith, because it's live performance. It's not manipulated. You cannot go back. So it's a wonderful adventure,” Pretty Yende tells me. We’re backstage at the ...

LONDON — No opera is short of heartbreak, but in “Semele,” sorrow is wrapped in beautiful fabrics. The Handel opera from 1744 has been reimagined by Oliver Mears, the director of opera at the Royal ...

Semele is playing at the Royal Opera House on various dates until 18 July. Beautiful music, glorious singing and a doubtful production combine to create mixed feelings about Handel's Semele at the ...

Pretty Yende sings with her customary exquisite delicacy as Semele - Alastair Muir Semele has always annoyed the puritans. At the 1744 premiere of Handel’s gorgeously entertaining oratorio, it was ...

Oliver Mears’ new staging of Semele marks the Royal Opera’s first new production of Handel’s work since 1982. First seen in Paris earlier this year, it relocates the action to a soulless 1960s hotel – ...

Misconceived staging diminishes the impact of Handel’s mythological comedy Playwright William Congreve wrote the libretto to Semele for composer John Eccles around 1706, although for some reason, the ...

Pretty Yende nearly took ‘break a leg’ a little too literally ahead of performing at King Charles’s Coronation. The evening before she sang ‘Sacred Fire’ at Westminster Abbey on that May day in 2023, ...