The tragedy surrounding the nymph Galatea and her love for the shepherd Acis originates in ancient Greek mythology and was revised and expanded by Ovid for the thirteenth book of his collection of ...

WE’RE BACK NOW AT 1123. A STORY OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY, FULL OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES. AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN MILWAUKEE THIS WEEKEND. THE FLORENTINE OPERA IS PERFORMING ACIS AND GALATEA. JOINING ME NOW ...

Opera Atelier’s production of G. F. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was a fun and fresh take on an opera that has delighted audiences since its premiere in 1718. Handel referred to it as his “little opera.” ...

Is there a sadder tale from Greek mythology than the story of the doomed lovers Acis the shepherd and the sea nymph Galatea? As Ovid relates it in "Metamorphoses," the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed ...

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 1718 iteration of Handel’s Acis and Galatea dates from exactly the same musical moment as the Four Seasons. In Italy, Handel had first sketched a version of this tale from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, in ...

NEW YORKMen don hats from "Gilligan's Island," women wear white summer dresses that could be out of the Emporio Armani catalog and they all play with sky-blue beach balls when not lounging in ...

The young Handel wrote Aci, Galatea e Polifemo as a “serenata” entertainment to celebrate a grand society wedding in Naples in 1708 (a decade later, with entirely different music, he revived the story ...