With its parade of clowns and circus setting, the visual spectacle of Jenny Miller's production is alluring, but it's the musical acrobatics of Handel's score that engage the most Roll up! Roll up!

Track review of "Poro, re dell'Indie: Overture/Duet "Caro! Dolce" Amico amplesso"" The alto and contralto voices were popular for male roles in the Baroque Period. Mingardo's true contralto (as ...

Just about the most spectacular opera event of the season so far arrived at Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, with the English Concert and Harry Bicket making their annual foray into Handel territory, ...

A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

Armide falling in love with Rinaldo from the 1616 painting by Nicolas Poussin. Would you believe that this was the first opera by Handel to ever be sung at the Met, and it was back in 1983! There was ...

Four strong countertenors are on display in this school-based setting of Handel's opera, but the consistent playing for laughs feels both relentless and evasive The background to the plot of Handel's ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

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NEW YORK — It’s no secret that classical music institutions are struggling to attract new audiences. This challenge is often on my mind, but I had something of an epiphany about it on Sunday afternoon ...