Track review of "Poro, re dell'Indie: Overture/Duet "Caro! Dolce" Amico amplesso"" The alto and contralto voices were popular for male roles in the Baroque Period. Mingardo's true contralto (as ...

Just about the most spectacular opera event of the season so far arrived at Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, with the English Concert and Harry Bicket making their annual foray into Handel territory, ...

Over the past few seasons, Harry Bicket has brought us performances of the three great final Italian operas Handel wrote in the 1730s. Now he turns to the very beginning of Handel's career in London ...

Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Move over, Harry Potter. Nearly three centuries before the budding wizard made his literary appearance, composer George Frideric Handel and librettist ...

Armide falling in love with Rinaldo from the 1616 painting by Nicolas Poussin. Would you believe that this was the first opera by Handel to ever be sung at the Met, and it was back in 1983! There was ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

NEW YORK — It’s no secret that classical music institutions are struggling to attract new audiences. This challenge is often on my mind, but I had something of an epiphany about it on Sunday afternoon ...