As the yearlong celebrations for its 70th anniversary in 2026 begin, the National Youth Theatre will present two unique ...

Southeast's opera double feature pairs Purcell’s tragic Dido and Aeneas with Handel’s comic Alcina. The performance is on ...

A smart pairing of Mozart and Haydn with a Telemann rarity by artistic director Jonathan Cohen produced an unusually unified ...

A fledgling operatic group with its roots in Lincolnshire is gearing up for its third production, which will include a date ...

Handel’s Messiah was first performed in Dublin, and Handel insisted that it be used to raise money for debtors in prison, ...

There’s a lot of amazing work being done here that people should feel good about. We’re just trying to create a conversation ...

Handel’s Messiah is one of the great pieces of Baroque oratorio music. George Handel, though born in Germany, became a ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Overture a group of children are playing innocently when a couple of the boys engage in a mock ...

Handel composed his three-act opera seria Ariodante in 1735. It was his first opera to be performed at the Covent Garden Theatre, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House. But apart from one revival a ...