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

The Handel and Haydn Society has revealed details of its 2025-26 Season, the 211th consecutive season. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets here!

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 ...

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

Mark Lowther's personal recommendation for Handel's opera Acis and Galatea, plus the best of the week's new releases Written to a text by John Gay, of Beggar's Opera fame, the composer modestly ...

An opera told a story in song. A sonata was built around a theme developed by an instrumentalist. A concerto addressed multiple themes … shared among cohorts of musicians.” Handel absorbed all ...

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

Joyce DiDonato is an award-winning operatic mezzo-soprano who soared to international prominence in operas by Rossini, Handel, and Mozart, as well as in high-profile world premieres. Born and educated ...

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 ...