Sir David McVicar's witty and efferverscent production of Handel's most popular opera, GIULIO CESARE, arrives at the Met with Natalie Dessay and David Daniels in the leading roles and Harry Bicket on ...
HUDSON, N.Y. — Douglas Ray Williams knows what it takes to nurture an artistic community. The bass-baritone’s career has flown him around the world and landed him in Great Barrington for a flurry of ...
Repeating the successful alchemy of his 2023 RODELINDA, Schlather brings together area residents, rising stars, and some of today's finest baroque interpreters to share his passion for Handel in the ...
"Giulio Cesare" is, arguably, George Frideric Handel's masterpiece. Yes, it has its fair share of the musical conventions of the time, particularly a plethora of da capo arias. But as Baroque operas ...
Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...
Being true to Handel has never been easy, especially where "Giulio Cesare" is concerned. The German composer tinkered extensively with the score in the years after the work's 1724 premiere in London, ...
Natalie Dessay is snake-bit as Cleopatra, but Christophe Dumaux is bad to the bone as the villainous Tolomeo in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.” Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Bollywood dance numbers, kung fu ...
For years, Robert Butts, the music director of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, has wanted to perform Handel's "Giulio Cesare," ("Julius Caesar"), one of the most appreciated of the composer's ...