Though written 300 years apart, two operas that will be presented by OrpheusPDX in August have a lot in common. The operas are adapted from stories that were written many, many years before: one by ...

A revival of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” this summer at Glyndebourne, an English opera festival, features three countertenors with three different sounds. By David Belcher It’s a good time to be a ...

IN THE ASTOUNDING LEGACY OF HANDEL operas that now, at long last, assumes its rightful place on world stages, Rodelinda stands apart. It deals not with gods, magicians and philandering Roman generals ...

At Carnegie Hall, the English Concert made a case for “Hercules” as a strikingly modern dramatic oratorio of psychological and musical depth. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim The first part of Handel’s ...