Handel’s Semele is one of those works that refuses to sit neatly in a box. First staged at Covent Garden in 1744, it was billed as a “new oratorio” to slip past London’s strict Lenten ban on opera.

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The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits. By Arya Roshanian R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” ...

Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

Is there a sadder tale from Greek mythology than the story of the doomed lovers Acis the shepherd and the sea nymph Galatea? As Ovid relates it in "Metamorphoses," the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed ...

Can opera be cute? With its enormous, brightly colored sheep and a gamboling, high-heeled shepherd looking like a Prince-infused satyr, Florentine Opera's "Acis and Galatea" makes that case. At ...

WE’RE BACK NOW AT 1123. A STORY OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY, FULL OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES. AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN MILWAUKEE THIS WEEKEND. THE FLORENTINE OPERA IS PERFORMING ACIS AND GALATEA. JOINING ME NOW ...

As a boy who played piano seriously and spoke Italian, Francesco Milioto was almost destined for opera. But conducting? For the Florentine Opera's music director, that journey began serendipitously.

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Opera Atelier’s production of G. F. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was a fun and ...

You know them from their hit roles in projects like Full House and Footloose, but before they were taking the lead on their own series and movies, these actors were just getting their foot in the door ...

Though written 300 years apart, two operas that will be presented by OrpheusPDX in August have a lot in common. The operas are adapted from stories that were written many, many years before: one by ...