The Atlanta Opera announced that it is closing out its 2024-2025 season with a visually-stunning new production of George Frideric Handel’s Semele. Created by Handel in the 1700s, Semele is a ...

Pretty Yende sings with her customary exquisite delicacy as Semele - Alastair Muir Semele has always annoyed the puritans. At the 1744 premiere of Handel’s gorgeously entertaining oratorio, it was ...

The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor ...

For the first time in decades, George Frederic Handel’s most famous oratorio, “Messiah.” will be performed in its entirety in Vermont. “It’s a masterpiece. It’s a great, great piece,” says conductor ...

NEW YORK — When talk turns to whether the Metropolitan Opera should put on old works — like 1709 old — habits die hard. The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in ...

Others have done similar things: Samson – based on Milton’s work in what he considered to be the style of Greek drama – is a text that cries out to be staged, and has been. Messiah, too, albeit that ...

Italian text with English translation. Synopsis on p. [1]-2 by B. LeBere. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...