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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 ...

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 ...

As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil set in ...

Chicago early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will mark its pandemic-delayed return to full-scale mainstage productions with "Lucifera: Illuminating the Darkness," a new project conceived and ...

With its ravishing June production of Agostino Steffani’s 1688 opera, Niobe, Queen of Thebes, the Boston Early Music Festival has confirmed its unique and invaluable role within the early music ...

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...

Few operas wait centuries for an audience, but after 318 years, Antonia Bembo’s “Ercole amante,” is about to get its first U.S. staging, thanks to San Francisco’s Ars Minerva. It’s a remarkable coup ...