In the early 1700s, the British public couldn’t get enough of Handel. Born George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), the German-British composer spent the majority of his career in London. There, he became ...

As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

This revival of Richard Jones and Antony McDonald’s 2022 staging has kept most of its excellent original cast Lisette Oropesa is imperious and gleaming as the enchantress Alcina ...

The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroque master’s once-buried trove of The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of ...

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 ...

Richard Jones’s entertaining, Oliver Award-winning 2022 production of Handel’s Alcina returns to the Royal Opera, even livelier than before. Derived from Ariosto, the story of the enchantress Alcina, ...

From Germany to Italy, and then to London. A musician who traveled through the 18th centuryBach and Handel.You might remember ...

Like so many artists after him, Handel’s big break in opera came from being in the right place at the right time. In 1704, the composer Reinhard Keiser abruptly left the theater in Hamburg for an ...

In that mythical museum of great composers, surely there is a special room reserved for prodigies. Mozart would be front and center. Mendelssohn and Chopin would no doubt be there, too. But George ...

From the May 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. ‘False picture, you have deceived me!’ Images regularly enchant, beguile and mislead in the works of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), ...