Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda and Nicholas Thurbin as Flavio - Alastair Muir Handel's great 1725 opera Rodelinda is as confusing as any ...

Nights (and Afternoons) at the Opera / This is the fifth entry in a series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through April during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

Handel composed Rodelinda for the Royal Academy of Music -- a venture the composer helped to launch in London, with his own operas as one of its main drawing cards. Rodelinda was first performed at ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Music lovers have many opportunities to hear performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorios, but his operas are rarely staged although occasionally performed in concert ...

Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's Rodelinda, under the baton of Baroque specialist Harry Bicket in the revival of Stephen Wadsworth's acclaimed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Was there ever a composer who encapsulated the depths of human emotion as intensely – and concisely – as Handel ...

When there two occur together, the result can be outstanding. Musically, Rodelinda is one of Handel’s finest works; plot-wise, it is a mess, even by the shambolic standards of most operas. Article ...

The first revival of Richard Jones’s fascist-Italy-set production enjoys a strong cast, with Rebecca Evans outstanding in the title role. In its original 1724 form, Handel’s opera dealt with complex ...

Absurd outfits, too much gold and a pointless back story plague this production – but the English Concert orchestra is terrific Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...