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In the early 1700s, the British public couldn’t get enough of Handel. Born George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), the German-British composer spent the majority of his career in London. There, he became ...

Handel composed his three-act opera seria Ariodante in 1735. It was his first opera to be performed at the Covent Garden Theatre, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House. But apart from one revival a ...

Six decades ago, opera companies began to revive musical dramas by Handel, but it was not until 2002 that San Diego Opera got in the game with “Ariodante.” In the years since, San Diego Opera has ...

Set in the royal court of Scotland, evoked with humour, fantasy and more than a nod to parallels with Britain’s current Royal Family, the opera tells a story of love, jealousy, subterfuge and betrayal ...

Handel’s Ariodante received around a dozen performances at Covent Garden when it was new in 1735, but it’s taken the best part of three centuries for the Royal Opera to get around to staging it again.

Two outstanding singers anchor ENO’s first ever staging of Bellini’s Norma. And Ariodante is on song at Scottish Opera Wagner was a fan. So too were Chopin and Liszt. Schopenhauer called the opera the ...

It matters, and maybe a stage director for this score-free concert performance might have spruced everyone up; all seven singers command the stage, but with different gestural armouries. Only compare ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Overture a group of children are playing innocently when a couple of the boys engage in a mock ...

Crime and punishment are powerful themes in Scottish Opera’s take on Handel’s Ariodante, says conductor Nicholas Kraemer In its day, 1735 to be exact, Handel’s “Scottish” opera Ariodante met with ...

Director R. B. Schlather ponders the future of an art form. Matthu Placek New Year’s Day is the traditional day for setting resolutions for the following year, but the real turning point in the annual ...