Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...

David Daniels found his voice while vacuuming. Or maybe it was in his car. At the time, Daniels was an operatic tenor getting lead roles in productions at the University of Michigan. But he never felt ...

There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...

"Giulio Cesare" is, arguably, George Frideric Handel's masterpiece. Yes, it has its fair share of the musical conventions of the time, particularly a plethora of da capo arias. But as Baroque operas ...

Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

For this year’s Hanwha Classic, French Baroque takes center stage in a one-woman opera performed by renowned French soprano Patricia Petibon and Ensemble Amarillis, performing in Korea for the first ...

Major orchestras don’t play a lot of Baroque music these days, but don’t tell that to Harry Bicket. Mr. Bicket, most recently of the Los Angeles Opera, has made his career conducting mainly Baroque ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — On the one hand, the mash-up of the two baroque comic operas is like a TV sitcom, switching back and forth from one set of characters to another. On the other hand, that's also the ...