Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...

Agrippina, where have you been all my life? And Ars Lyrica? I think I love you. Ars Lyrica, Houston’s preeminent early music ensemble, under the sparkling direction of Matthew Dirst, has staged an ...

With Christmas season approaching, Handel’s “Messiah” is about to become unavoidable. But Ars Lyrica this week pumps the brakes on the arrival of the ubiquitous holiday oratorio. The 20-year-old ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

Full of scenic wonders, stunning music, magnificent performances, thunderous choruses, and elegant direction, Houston Grand Opera’s presentation of George Frideric Handel’s commanding oratorio Saul ...

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711 as ...