Period instrument ensemble Figure’s semi-staging of an abridged version of Serse was full of good ideas and strong singing This was the first opera from the new period-instrument ensemble Figure, and ...

This historical revival of Handel's Serse particularly emphasises the humorous aspects of the opera, thereby creating a wonderfully entertaining spectacle from start to finish. Serse is an unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera 3 Review: SAMSON ET DALILA, Royal Ballet And Opera Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and ...

All those lucky enough to catch the Glyndebourne production of Handel's oratorio Theodora, either when Peter Sellars' staging was new in 1996 or when it was revived last summer, will have the beauty ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1738, the statue of Handel as Orpheus, now in the V&A, was unveiled at Vauxhall’s Spring Gardens in London.

This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and ...

This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done With its airy spaces and lively acoustic, James Gibbs’s 1720s church at ...