Projection proves a problem for the singers, but this Theodora at BOZAR is nevertheless full of musical and spiritual beauty.

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Classics Reconsidered: Handel’s Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra / Charles Mackerras) Friday, July 12, 2024 Richard Wigmore and Lindsay Kemp assess how Charles Mackerras’s 1966 recording of Messiah ...

Explorations deep into the language of music. There’s a lot that’s Bach, and a lot that’s not. Hosted by Sherry Gendleman and Anthony Bonet. Emanuel Ax Grande Valse Brillante in A minor Op. 34, No. 2 ...

For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Jonathan Cohen, conductor of Arcangelo, joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his new recording on the Alpha label of Handel's powerful late oratorio, ...

Opera Australia’s summer season continued on February 8 with a chance to hear Handel’s favorite among his oratorios. What was it? 1739’s “Saul?” “Messiah” of 1742? Neither. Handel acknowledged that ...

Weill Hall was packed to a capacity crowd Saturday evening for the masterpiece oratorio known as George Frideric Handel’s “Theodora” (1750), guided by the artistic director of The English Concert and ...

Pinchgut Opera’s ‘Theodora’. Photo: Robert Catto. George Frideric Handel’s penultimate oratorio Theodora, will be staged in concert at Sydney Opera House in February, in the first ever collaboration ...

Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...

3:00pm / Join us for a lecture with MIT professor emeritus and Handel scholar Ellen T. Harris. Theodora stands out as one of Handel’s finest creations. Composed in 1749 at the twilight of his career, ...

Period ensemble Arcangelo prove why Handel’s undervalued oratorio deserves its place on stage, both musically and for its depiction of an inspiring heroine, brought to life tonight by Louise Alder.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most memorable operatic event of the year so far has been the Royal Opera’s mesmerising production of ...