Gap ads of recent vintage seem to have been among the inspirations for Mark Lamos' playful and poignant new production of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" at City Opera. Everyone's in khaki for this ...

The International Festival of Arts and iIdeas is intentionally scheduled to provide a smooth transition from the end of the school year into the summer entertainment season. Usually, that just means ...

Acis & Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: No. 2, Oh, the Pleasure of the Plains! Acis & Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: No. 3a, Ye Verdant Plains and Woody Mountains Acis & Galatea ...

Can opera be cute? With its enormous, brightly colored sheep and a gamboling, high-heeled shepherd looking like a Prince-infused satyr, Florentine Opera's "Acis and Galatea" makes that case. At ...

The 33rd annual Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar came to a close Sunday afternoon in Newport Harbor Lutheran Church with an ambitious program that was impressively performed. The main order of ...

A quarter of a century ago, Mark Morris made a dance out of Handel’s oratorio “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.” Now he’s taken on the Handel opera “Acis and Galatea,” the composer’s most ...

BERKELEY — Acis, a shepherd, and Galatea, a nymph, are in love. The jealous giant Polyphemus brains Acis. Galatea uses her divine powers to restore her slain swain into a fountain, gently purring ...

Nicholas Garza (Damon), far-left, Alex Longnecker (Acis) and Gitanjali Mathur (Galatea) far-right, during a production of Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' by the American Baroque Opera Company, on Saturday ...

Last fall the Chicago Opera Theater scored a critical and box-office success with a stylish staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, so it’s wrapping up this season with a revival of another Baroque opera, ...

Handel's pastoral opera – Greek idyll turned tragic – offers the perfect masterclass in baroque style, and this production marked a happy collaboration between Nicholas Cleobury's Mid-Wales Opera, ...