The Nevada Chamber Opera, in collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno’s Chamber Choir, Symphony Orchestra, and new Doctor of Musical Arts program, will present Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” in ...

Opera Atelier announces the opening of its 2024/25 season with a fully-staged production of George Frideric Handel’s beloved and widely accessible opera, Acis and Galatea, at Toronto’s historic Elgin ...

A phenomenally endearing production, Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and ...

LENOX — Dashon Burton raged into Arcadia at the start of Act 2 as the monstrous Polyphemus, exploding onto the Seiji Ozawa Hall stage and lifting the rest of an otherwise uneven “Acis and Galatea” ...

NEW YORKMen don hats from "Gilligan's Island," women wear white summer dresses that could be out of the Emporio Armani catalog and they all play with sky-blue beach balls when not lounging in ...

Is there a sadder tale from Greek mythology than the story of the doomed lovers Acis the shepherd and the sea nymph Galatea? As Ovid relates it in "Metamorphoses," the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed ...

Can opera be cute? With its enormous, brightly colored sheep and a gamboling, high-heeled shepherd looking like a Prince-infused satyr, Florentine Opera's "Acis and Galatea" makes that case. At ...

Viewed one way, Handel's pastoral opera "Acis and Galatea" has one of the hokiest plots imaginable. A sea nymph loves a shepherd, but their happiness is ruined by a killjoy giant who wants the nymph ...

It was a big bad brute who did in Acis and Galatea in Handel's chamber opera. Acis and Galatea was the composer's first dramatic piece in English and the work most frequently performed during his ...