A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

A frankly daft Crusading plot is reworked as the cartoonish fantasies of a schoolboy. Bullied by his classmates and bored of his history lesson, he recasts the Crusades with himself as warrior-hero ...

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 ...

Over the past few seasons, Harry Bicket has brought us performances of the three great final Italian operas Handel wrote in the 1730s. Now he turns to the very beginning of Handel's career in London ...

IRVING - You've got to admire the bravery of the American Baroque Opera Company. Founded just three years ago, the Dallas-based organization is putting on staged productions of challenging repertory ...

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 ...

In Carsen’s daydream vision, Christian knight Rinaldo finds himself a schoolboy geek, carefully pasting a photo of his beloved Almirena (all specs and plaits) under the lid of his desk. Fantasising ...