ST. LOUIS - Along with Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis is a prime summer destination for American opera lovers. In its 49th season, the Missouri festival retains an enterprising identity ...

In the old days, record companies offered you an opera in a box set. But they also offered you a highlights album: a single LP. You know the problem with Handel’s Julius Caesar? It is, basically, ...

The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

Although Handel's opera "Julius Caesar," known as "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in its native tongue of Italian, is regarded one of his greatest works for the stage, it went out of fashion just like the ...

Directions. Take one dead giraffe. Place carefully onto work surface. Sever head. Remove tongue. Serve with a garnish of eviscerated crocodile. Mwah! In Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new production for ...

Beware the Ides of March! Today's Beautiful Music is a selection from George Frideric Handel's opera JULIUS CAESAR, sung by Danielle de Niese -- described by New York Times Magazine as “opera’s ...

In 1724, George Frideric Handel brought the timeless love story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life in music through his exquisite opera Giulio Cesare. In honor of this dramatic work's 300th ...

Julius Caesar is the greatest of Handel’s operas, and one of the greatest of all opera seria; it contains arias which can stand with the finest by Mozart or Verdi in terms of exploration of character ...