Ariodante had its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, on the site in London where the Royal Opera House now stands, in ...

One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent Garden and has not been seen there since – ...

Now regarded as one of Handel’s greatest works, Ariodante has had a curious production history. After a short London run in ...

This is a Handel year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. We remember George Frideric Handel primarily for his oratorio, "Messiah," one of the greatest masterpieces in the classical canon.

(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

A recital by The King’s Consort at the Wigmore Hall of Handel’s little-known Nine German Arias, performed with three of the composer’s oboe works, was a pleasant rather than revelatory evening. The ...

Although Handel's opera "Julius Caesar," known as "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in its native tongue of Italian, is regarded one of his greatest works for the stage, it went out of fashion just like the ...