HOW LONG can it take for a flop to become a smash? In the case of one of George Frideric Handel’s oratorios, the answer is around 250 years. In February 1750 the composer turned 65. A few weeks later ...

Handel’s “Theodora” was performed in its entirety at Segerstrom Concert Hall on Monday night by conductor Harry Bicket, the English Concert, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and a set of distinguished ...

Serse, 'Xerxes', Movements: Se bramate d'amar, chi vi sdegna Harry Bicket, Conductor Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo soprano George Frideric Handel, Composer Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Serse ...

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Theodora is a moralistic tale of Christians persecuted and martyred in Roman Antioch. (Fun fact: the novel on which it is based was by Robert Boyle, he of Boyle’s Law of gas expansion). Theodora ...

This live recording is culled from six performances preserved in Glyndebourne’s extensive independent archive, so it is not identical to the Channel 4 television broadcast that has been issued on DVD ...

Handel saw himself above all as a theatrical composer. When his Italian operas failed to excite the British, he appealed to their religiosity with Bible-based English oratorios that were operas in ...