MOST of us associate the air commonly known as “Handel’s Largo” with heavy-footed organists, condescending conductors, loggy contraltos, soppy boy sopranos, intermission at the movies, and ...

But many other glories spill forth, including dreamy or chipper arias for virtually every principal singer and orchestral interludes of Handelian splendor. As conducted by Harry Davidson, the various ...

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A short sortie into the plot of Xerxes brings home how little entertainment has changed over the centuries. Today, we can’t get enough of our costume dramas replete with steamy characters, set against ...

When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria ...

Since its rediscovery at the Göttingen Festival in 1926, Xerxes has been one of the most performed of Handel’s operas, surpassed only in the number of productions by Giulio Cesare. The opening aria of ...