Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Remarkably, in its more than two decades as the nation’s leading baroque opera specialist, Pinchgut Opera, has never performed an opera ...

Rinaldo was the first Italian opera written for the London stage, and it catapulted the young Handel to fame and fortune with its brilliant display of arias, duets and innovative orchestral effects.

Art imitates life in 300-year-old show-stopping opera about conflict in the Middle East. The irony was not lost on the audience, but for three hours they were able to forget the horrors of the real ...

Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...

NEW YORK — It’s no secret that classical music institutions are struggling to attract new audiences. This challenge is often on my mind, but I had something of an epiphany about it on Sunday afternoon ...

Robert Carsen’s schoolroom reimagining of Handel’s Rinaldo proves both inventive and incisive, its playful concept underpinned by outstanding singing and spirited direction from Laurence Cummings The ...

This funny, feisty, finely sung version of one of the most difficult to stage of all Handel’s operas, brings Glyndebourne’s exceptional 2014 season to a rousing close. Apparently, Robert Carsen’s ...

Handel's reputation was preceded him across the English channel. "The news of his uncommon ability were, even before his arrival in England, there spread out," recorded his first biographer John ...

The English Concert performed George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo at the Zhongshan Park Concert Hall on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Beijing audiences were treated to a night of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Rinaldo was the first Italian opera written for the London stage, and it catapulted the young Handel to ...