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

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

In upstate New York, director R.B. Schlather sought to wrestle Handel’s opera into modernity; in Brooklyn, Anthony Roth ...

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

At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for ...

we knew that R.B. Schlather had fashioned a “Giulio Cesare” like no other ... written in 1724 by George Frideric Handel and continuing for five more performances at Hudson Hall, would bear. He ...

"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 ...

This time, from April 19 to May 2 at the venerable theater, it’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” Handel’s intricate drama of the title Roman’s fight for control of Egypt and for the love of its beguiling ...

Schlather maintains that the scale and flexibility of Hudson Hall is ideal for the immediacy of the Baroque repertoire.