The 2025-26 Houston Grand Opera season promises to be a significant one as the company will stage its first-ever Handel's ...

It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...

In 1723, soprano Francesca Cuzzoni was rehearsing one of Handel’s operas in a second-floor music room. She refused to sing ...

This year’s International Händel Festival in Göttingen kicks off on May 16th and will run until May 25th. The festival will ...

An opera told a story in song. A sonata was built around a theme developed by an instrumentalist. A concerto addressed ...

Handel is without a doubt the most popular of our four composers. The figures speak for themselves: if you run a Google search, you ...

Detroit Opera’s charming “Rinaldo” is a whimsical potion of a production. Director Louisa Proske’s warm and magical staging takes Handel’s tale of kings and warfare during the First ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s ...

Goodall also explores how opera became a hit with the masses in the 1700s. Handel was one of the most successful composers of the era writing several operas, oratorios and popular religious set ...