As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra is presenting a program called Stolen. Husband and wife Richard Stone and Gwyn Roberts are the ensemble's co-founders and ...

Make the season bright with the beauty of Baroque music as the Handel and Haydn Society welcomes Ruben Valenzuela, Founder and Artistic Director of Bach Collegium San Diego to lead this year's ...

The annual Pacific Baroque Festival, which begins Feb. 19, has always struck a balance between the neglected and the familiar. Several recent festivals were devoted to repertoire that is hardly over- ...

Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...

Mark Herz: This is Morning Edition. The legendary conductor Martin Pearlman is in his final season leading the storied music ensemble Boston Baroque. Known to many as simply Marty, he’s been bringing ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music is a form of prayer. George Frideric Handel, a more worldly fellow, a composer of operas, wrote sacred music to entertain. Bach’s sacred music is easy to admire; ...

The goal of Boston Baroque’s New Directions Series is to present programs that include baroque music and contemporary works that are connected by a theme. The orchestra initiated the series last year ...

Sunday Baroque is welcoming 2026 this weekend with some of the greatest hits of the baroque era. The beloved favorites ...

The sprawling ambition of the American Handel Festival, which includes an American Handel Society conference plus 30 concerts over 17 days, continues this weekend at various Seattle venues. Our Lady ...

Musicologist and Handel scholar John Roberts realized almost immediately that the manuscript he was examining was a new cantata by one of the Baroque masters. A visit by Dutch conductor and early ...