As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...

The annual Pacific Baroque Festival, which begins Feb. 19, has always struck a balance between the neglected and the familiar. Several recent festivals were devoted to repertoire that is hardly over- ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra is presenting a program called Stolen. Husband and wife Richard Stone and Gwyn Roberts are the ensemble's co-founders and ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music is a form of prayer. George Frideric Handel, a more worldly fellow, a composer of operas, wrote sacred music to entertain. Bach’s sacred music is easy to admire; ...

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The goal of Boston Baroque’s New Directions Series is to present programs that include baroque music and contemporary works that are connected by a theme. The orchestra initiated the series last year ...

The sprawling ambition of the American Handel Festival, which includes an American Handel Society conference plus 30 concerts over 17 days, continues this weekend at various Seattle venues. Our Lady ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Come December, music director Nicholas McGegan often leads the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in one of Handel’s large-scale works; the early-music ensemble will present the composer’s ...

Musicologist and Handel scholar John Roberts realized almost immediately that the manuscript he was examining was a new cantata by one of the Baroque masters. A visit by Dutch conductor and early ...

George Frideric Handel was a 'lugubrious, heavy-drinking, heavy-eating, very lustful man,' according to Baroque musician Karim Nasr, who plays oboes, bassoons and other wind instruments from the ...

Handel and Haydn Society's new 2021-22 season opens October 8 and GBH Radio's Henry Santoro interviewed David Snead, President and CEO of the Handel and Haydn Society, which performs baroque and ...