Lucie Horsch and B'Rock show that their stars are fully risen in Vivaldi and Telemann. Grigory Sokolov demonstrates why he ...

The Valkyrie Ensemble, a feminist opera collective based in Chicago, will present an all-femme cast of women, non-binary, and ...

This upcoming season at the Palau – which has a strongly Bachian and Beethovenian flavour – features many of Europe’s most ...

Germany has produced some of the greatest compositional voices in history – many of whom are considered among the best across ...

In Madrid, where Ruciński is performing Count di Luna in Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore" in Francisco Negrin's production, ...

Opera Lafayette announced its 32nd season, 'Crazy in Love,' featuring a modern world premiere of Rameau's LES SURPRISES DE ...

The music of the classical and baroque eras still shapes how we hear everything from movie soundtracks to pop hooks. Those centuries produced composers who took the raw math of harmony and turned it ...

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David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pit The year 1724 found Handel at the very ...

Under the circumstances, it seemed fine that audience members drifted in during a generic-feeling Sinfonia, less so once the action got under way. Handel wants it both ways in his most amusing ...

Opera has a way of grabbing you by the throat and refusing to let go. A single aria can distill an entire evening’s worth of drama, love, rage, or despair into four or five minutes that feel like they ...

The director David Alden writes passionately about the ‘Handelian revelation’ he experienced at English National Opera in the 1970s, when the company presented Julius Caesar with Janet Baker ‘life ...