With its campy edge, swaggering wit, and kinetic staging, this show is tailor-made for first-time opera goers.

R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak ...

Bass baritone Douglas Ray Williams relied on over-played masculine bluster as Achilla. In the role of Tolomeo, countertenor ...

R.B. Schlather’s "Giulio Cesare," featuring Ruckus and a full cast, continues at Hudson Hall with performances on April 23, ...

"Think of it as Handel’s version of a pulp fiction thriller, inspired by Julius Caesar’s high-stakes escapades in Egypt and his scandalous love affair with the young, cunning Cleopatra." — R.B. Schlat ...

The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song Hee Lee and Davon Rainey rehearse “Giulio Cesare” at Hudson Hall.Credit...Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times ...

Westbury’s best spellers and artists were in the spotlight at the district’s second April meeting. All 56 students who participated in the district’s fourth annual spelling bee on March 13 ...