The 2025-26 Houston Grand Opera season promises to be a significant one as the company will stage its first-ever Handel's ...

This year’s International Händel Festival in Göttingen kicks off on May 16th and will run until May 25th. The festival will ...

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 ...

In 1723, soprano Francesca Cuzzoni was rehearsing one of Handel’s operas in a second-floor music room. She refused to sing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...