Orpha Phelan’s fun but confusing staging for the London Handel festival aligns the opera’s characters with recognisable famous figures. Fine singers and players led by Laurence Cummings ensure consist ...

Think this election season is full of political stunts? They have nothing on King George I. Looking to one-up his popular heir, the British monarch tapped George Frideric Handel — like King George, a ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...

After a two-year hiatus, Handel's Messiah is back! Nothing conjures the festive season like Tafelmusik's presentation of this baroque masterpiece. Performances take place on December 16 and 17 at 7:30 ...

The London Handel Festival has been an important part of the classical music calendar for some 40 years, but I felt it was not recognised enough outside the world of Handelian cognoscenti, and we ...

In 1746 George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose an oratorio for a victory celebration. He based the work on the heroic story of Judah Maccabee – the Jewish leader who defended his country ...

🎧Hear the sound of hundreds of Chicagoans joining together in a “Hallelujah” moment by clicking the play button above. Chicago just spent another week in the national spotlight, as President Donald ...

For his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis chose the most widely-performed and beloved oratorio of all, Handel’s Messiah. Davis’ prowess in leading ...

How do I know? Because there he was, as we all suspected he would be because of tight security, enjoying among other things a more relaxed performance of "Zadok the Priest" than the splendid one a ...

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