It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...

An opera told a story in song. A sonata was built around a theme developed by an instrumentalist. A concerto addressed ...

Handel is without a doubt the most popular of our four composers. The figures speak for themselves: if you run a Google search, you ...

Detroit Opera’s charming “Rinaldo” is a whimsical potion of a production. Director Louisa Proske’s warm and magical staging takes Handel’s tale of kings and warfare during the First Crusade (which ...

The story focuses on the emotional downward spiral of the first king of Israel's relationship with his eventual successor, ...

After studying law for a while in Halle, he was organist at the Cathedral of Moritzburg – only 18 years old and already people were talking of ‘the famous Handel’ – and then moved to Hamburg, the seat ...

Venezuelan soprano Samuel Marino delivered a mixture of slow plaintive arias and display pieces from operas by Handel in the opening concert of the Australian Brandenburg’s 35th season.

It takes its place in a long line of great operas that have premiered at Covent Garden, starting with works such as Handel’s Alcina and Semele – the latter is also being newly staged at the ...