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3 weeks ago

Messiah album review Whelan takes Handel's oratorio back to its beginnings

The Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back to Dublin, the city of its 1742 premiere, attempting to recreate the version heard at its first performance.
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2 months ago

Unfinished Mozart manuscript going on display in Mayfair museum

The sheet is modest in size but immense in significance. Carefully inked across the page are the opening 20 bars of a fugue - not Mozart's own invention, but his transcription of a harpsichord work by George Frideric Handel, composed more than sixty years earlier. Mozart was 26 when he set to work on it in 1782-83, transforming Handel's keyboard fugue into the beginnings of a string quartet arrangement.
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2 months ago

Handel: Sosarme album review Marco Angioloni makes the case for this little-known work

Sosarme, premiered in 1732, is an underrated Handel opera with emotional depth and memorable arias, deserving modern revival performances such as Opera Royal de Versailles'.
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4 months ago

Ariodante at the Royal Ballet & Opera

Handel's three-act opera Ariodante (1735) dramatizes betrayal, despair, and redemption in idealized medieval Scotland, featuring characters Ariodante, Ginevra, Polinesso, and Dalinda.
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5 months ago

Partenope English National Opera at the London Coliseum

English National Opera's Partenope offers a vibrant, witty Handel performance with sparkling score, charismatic singing, and bold 1920s-inspired Art Deco staging.
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6 months ago

Soprano Julia Lezhneva is exceptional in this recording of early Handel arias

Russian soprano Lezhneva delivers a standout performance in Handel's early oratorio; a 2015 recording of her rendition exists.
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9 months ago

Rodelinda Handel Garsington Opera

Handel's Rodelinda is one of the Baroque era's most emotionally compelling operas, showcasing a world where courage and constancy triumph over tyranny.
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10 months ago

Saul review probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel's oratorio

Kosky's revival of Handel's Saul is an engrossing representation of a king's descent, exploring moral dilemmas that resonate with contemporary audiences.
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