Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale's new music director Peter Whelan admires Handel's 1728 masterpiece "Tolomeo," an ...

Peter Whelan launches his tenure as Philharmonia Baroque's new music director with a triumphant, dream-cast production of ...

Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a cardiologist convention and absolutely gorgeous singing ...

Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...

The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present a fully staged production of the 17th-century Italian opera “La finta pazza” (“the make-believe madwoman”) by Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) in two ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...

Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...