Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...

To director Orpha Phelan, Handel’s Tamerlano can pose problems for modern audiences. When it premiered in 1724 the stories of Tamerlane the Tartar and his Ottoman rival Bayezid I would have been well ...

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So dramatic are they in fact, that these days we seem just as likely to see them staged as not, and it’s obvious that the spirit of opera lived on strong to the end of Handel’s career albeit ...

Alexander Dobson, Benjamin Butterfield and Anne Grimm are partnering with the Whistler Chamber Music Society with violinist ...

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The world-renowned countertenor discusses building The Grange Festival from scratch, balancing adventurous programming with ...

Mozart's music has a cleansing and enveloping quality and under Harry Bicket, the 'Requiem' sounds like a religious rite.

If you’re thinking of the muscle-bound hero of action films—or even Disney animation—boy, have you got the wrong HERCULES. As soon as Harry Bicket and his early music ensemble, ‘The English Concert,’ ...

Ars Lyrica Houston announced its 2026-27 season, Visions & Visionaries, a six-program series that explores the power of imagination in music, spanning from the early Baroque to the Classical era.

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Bright and undimmed throughout, the venue’s pale stone and high gallery was filled to near-capacity with an audience looking ...