Lengthy enough to provoke joking comparisons to Wagner, George Frideric Handel’s “Xerxes” is loosely — very loosely — inspired by the life of the ancient Persian king, an empire builder. If you’re ...

A triumverate of opera's best and brightest are ready to rule as HGO mounts the Olivier Award-winning English National Opera production, widely regarded as the work's definitive treatment. • Susan ...

Love, laughs, betrayal: The story of a powerful man who has everything but the woman he wants. Some things are timeless, no matter how they’re presented, and George Frideric Handel’s frothy dramedy ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

But many other glories spill forth, including dreamy or chipper arias for virtually every principal singer and orchestral interludes of Handelian splendor. As conducted by Harry Davidson, the various ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The cast includes Susan Graham as Xerxes, Laura Claycomb as Romilda, David ...

Stripped of some of its excess movement, Hytner’s elegant concept speaks clearly and wittily. Here is a Handel opera seria refracted through the anarchic world of the 18 th-century pleasure garden.

This is Longborough’s Young Artist production for 2015, and attention is very much on the cast and how they cope with this vocally treacherous music in an overcomplicated production that crowds the ...

Almost 25 years later, it still remains its freshness and the same dilemmas we face today: intrigue, infidelity, disguise, jealousy and secret love are played out as the action centres on the rivalry ...

It only took about five minutes on Sunday afternoon for the San Francisco Opera's first production of Handel's "Xerxes" to establish itself as a genuine triumph. As conductor Patrick Summers led the ...

Alice Coote brings tremendous vocal swagger to this ENO revival of Handel’s comic opera Quiz: How much do you know about Handel’s operas? “Who would even believe it?” asks Elviro towards the end of ...

Music from another century, songs written in a foreign language and runtimes that can reach over three hours may make some operas seem unapproachable to people who are not used to the genre. But come ...