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 ...

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 ...

The Santa Fe Opera's Rodelinda is a triumph on all fronts, with excellent conducting, stage direction, singing, and acting.

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 ...

Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's Rodelinda, under the baton of Baroque specialist Harry Bicket in the revival of Stephen Wadsworth's acclaimed ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Was there ever a composer who encapsulated the depths of human emotion as intensely – and concisely – as Handel ...

The first revival of Richard Jones’s fascist-Italy-set production enjoys a strong cast, with Rebecca Evans outstanding in the title role. In its original 1724 form, Handel’s opera dealt with complex ...

THERE are two things that the English National Opera does as well as, if not better than, any other major opera company in the world: Performing the operas of Handel and not taking itself too ...