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 ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Premiered in 1774, Semele is the latest in the Royal Opera House's series of Handel operas and ...
Think of the graceful melody known as Handel’s Largo, from the composer’s 1738 opera Serse (Xerxes). This is music calculated to melt the heart, with its stately descending phrase — “Ombra mai fu” — ...
The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...
IN THE ASTOUNDING LEGACY OF HANDEL operas that now, at long last, assumes its rightful place on world stages, Rodelinda stands apart. It deals not with gods, magicians and philandering Roman generals ...