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, ...

In the absence of the mermaids, fire-breathing dragons and live flock of sparrows that caused a stir in 1711, the thrills were strictly musical in this concert performance, but Bicket and his team are ...

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 ...

Over the past few seasons, Harry Bicket has brought us performances of the three great final Italian operas Handel wrote in the 1730s. Now he turns to the very beginning of Handel's career in London ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...