MOST of us associate the air commonly known as “Handel’s Largo” with heavy-footed organists, condescending conductors, loggy contraltos, soppy boy sopranos, intermission at the movies, and ...

Handel's operas don't venture into the world of comedy very often. But when they do - and when they're presented with the degree of theatrical verve and musical allure that the Berkeley West Edge ...

When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria ...

The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...

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 ...

Handel's only comic opera is a timeless story of love, deception, mistaken identity and ultimate forgiveness.It combines delightfully comic situations with heart-wrenching depths of emotion that has ...

A short sortie into the plot of Xerxes brings home how little entertainment has changed over the centuries. Today, we can’t get enough of our costume dramas replete with steamy characters, set against ...

Aided by the cogent wit of Nicholas Hytner’s classic English translation, director James Conway strips away orientalist issues and pantaloons alike, and plunges us instead into a wartime montage of ...