Some thoughts on Heartbeat Opera’s increasing ubiquity and Opera Saratoga’s summer fare in the latest Classical Notes.

Heartbeat Opera and Williamstown Theatre Festival team up for a bold, stripped-down staging of Samuel Barber’s "Vanessa,' ...

Melbourne girl becomes a child star, conquers the operatic world and marries an English arts patron: Danielle de Niese’s life ...

The production sets the classic story in the heart of English village life, blending operatic drama with cricket matches, bake-offs, and ...

Recordings of works inspired by ancient, biblical and mythical figures in performances from some of Europe's leading orchestras and ensembles, featuring a complete performance of Handel's opera ...

Two radically different revivals of Handel’s Giulio Cesare—at Hudson Hall and Carnegie Hall—offered an alt to the new Antony and Cleopatra.

Is Giulio Cesare in Egitto, to give the full title, Handel’s best and shapeliest opera? Glyndebourne’s revival of the legendary David McVicar production last year made it seem so, not least thanks to ...

The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits.

Claus Guth’s production of the Strauss opera at the Met emphasizes its heroine’s history of abuse in telling the tale of obsession and decapitation; at Carnegie Hall, Harry Bicket and the ...

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

Most of all, with spare trappings and keen eye for detail, with judicious trims and refreshing irreverence, it was a “Giulio Cesare” that cut to the quick. Opera review What: “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” ...