Six decades ago, opera companies began to revive musical dramas by Handel, but it was not until 2002 that San Diego Opera got in the game with “Ariodante.” In the years since, San Diego Opera has ...

The Curtis Opera Theatre's 2022-23 season concludes May 4 through May 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Perlman Theater in the Kimmel Center with George Frideric Handel's riveting tale of obsession, desire, and ...

Even during George Frideric Handel's own lifetime, the highly stylized conventions of conventional Italian opera seria were severely challenged. John Gay's A Beggar's Opera put real people on stage, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of ...

Handel’s Ariodante received around a dozen performances at Covent Garden when it was new in 1735, but it’s taken the best part of three centuries for the Royal Opera to get around to staging it again.

Opera has occupied a central place in Boston Baroque’s repertoire for most of its 52-year history, but for much of that timespan, those operas were performed in concert, or with minimal stagecraft.

For the first time in history, Ariodante has stepped on the Monte-Carlo Opera stage, bewildering and enchanting the Monegasque audience in this 3+ hour opera by Händel. Following the success of the ...

A strong cast work hard but their verve isn’t matched by orchestra or direction in a patchy production of Handel’s opera “Enjoy yourself,” sings a caustic Ariodante in this darkest of baroque operas.