The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

Before turning to the choral compositions such as Messiah, for which he is best known today, a musicologist produced a string of Italian-language operas that vied for audiences in the ...

Handel’s operas, once exotic rarities, have become more familiar in recent years. However, due to the structure of American opera houses, with their permanent orchestras, it is rare to hear them ...

IN THE ASTOUNDING LEGACY OF HANDEL operas that now, at long last, assumes its rightful place on world stages, Rodelinda stands apart. It deals not with gods, magicians and philandering Roman generals ...

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 ...

George Frideric Handel — an immortal composer by any standard — wrote over 40 operas. For much of his career, they were his primary source of income and recognition. But these operas — written in ...