Arcadia, that mythical realm where shepherds and nymphs sport the days away, is a tricky place from a dramatic standpoint. Life there is an abstract pageant, in which nothing much happens except ...

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, ...

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 ...

George Frideric Handel was the most successful operatic composer of the Baroque era, yet for two centuries after his death, he was chiefly known to concertgoers for his instrumental suites (such as ...

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 ...

Launched in 2017, the company’s reliably punchy Studio Live strand (stripped-back, small-scale, off-site performances) continues here with Handel’s “little opera”, reinvented for the Instagram age.

The Nevada Chamber Opera, in collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno’s Chamber Choir, Symphony Orchestra, and new Doctor of Musical Arts program, will present Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” in ...

When it comes to arousing interest in a new artistic project, the passions of the music and dance worlds rarely converge - except when Mark Morris comes to town. The world premiere of the famed ...

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 ...