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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2009, Radio 3 marks the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel with a complete cycle of his operas, all broadcast in the order they were first performed ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...