Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits. By Arya Roshanian ...

Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the plot, history, performances and recordings of one of Handel’s most enduring operas, Giulio Cesare, first performed at London's Haymarket in 1724. Show more Lucie Skeaping ...

Sir David McVicar's witty and efferverscent production of Handel's most popular opera, GIULIO CESARE, arrives at the Met with Natalie Dessay and David Daniels in the leading roles and Harry Bicket on ...

Repeating the successful alchemy of his 2023 RODELINDA, Schlather brings together area residents, rising stars, and some of today's finest baroque interpreters to share his passion for Handel in the ...

Being true to Handel has never been easy, especially where "Giulio Cesare" is concerned. The German composer tinkered extensively with the score in the years after the work's 1724 premiere in London, ...

For years, Robert Butts, the music director of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, has wanted to perform Handel's "Giulio Cesare," ("Julius Caesar"), one of the most appreciated of the composer's ...

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 ...

Bollywood dance numbers, kung fu fighting, simulated nudity — and rock-solid musical values — added up to a sterling “Giulio Cesare” at the Met. In David McVicar’s starry new production, Handel’s 1724 ...

In Amsterdam, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and director Calixto Bieito take on Handel’s famous Giulio Cesare. Power struggles, love and betrayal: these are the pillars on which Georg Friedrich Handel’s ...

Short, squat, silly, a bad actress, with a doughy, cross face and a "figure not advantageous for the stage": this was Horace Walpole's yobbish description of the star soprano who created the role of ...