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Handel? The guy who wrote ‘Messiah’? There’s a festival built around that guy? Yes, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) is that guy, but he was also an opera guy, a cantata guy, an oratorio guy, a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Curtis Opera Theatre's 2022-23 season concludes May 4 through May 7 at ...

Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

Two hundred and eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history.

One of the giants of Western music died 250 years ago Tuesday. George Frideric Handel, for his time, lived a good, long life. He was 74. Handel has been called the first classical music superstar. His ...

Part of the origin story behind one of the best-loved classical oratorios is a real-life scandal involving mix of blackmail, ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

Most people who experience George Frideric Handel’s operas do so as spectators, taking in the music and drama onstage from a comfy, velvet-wrapped seat in the audience. Conductor Jane Glover, however, ...

George Frideric Handel was mainly a composer of operas. In fact, he composed dozens of them. Even though his productions were popular in 18th-century London, Handel had his enemies -- he was a ...

Picture this: two ambitious young Turks at the Hamburg Opera on Dec. 5, 1704. Johann Mattheson, age 23: tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, composer. George Frideric ...