In Handel’s most popular opera, “Giulio Cesare,” there’s a little history and a lot of showbiz. At the beginning, Julius Caesar, presumably about 54, arrives in Egypt and is greeted with some ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Like a Christmas pudding, David McVicar’s take on Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” is so stuffed full of treats and surprises that even if some are not to your taste, you’re likely to enjoy ...

Friday, on the eve of Colin Powell’s visit to Egypt, Los Angeles Opera brought Egypt to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The secretary of state’s trip is important business and so, too, should be Handel ...

The Los Angeles Opera bills its current production of Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" as a summit meeting of three countertenors, the first time in the modern era that many specialists in that ...

MALVERN, England (Reuters) - Ken Allcock, 66, had never seen an opera and his wife Eileen hadn't been in about 50 years, but both were enchanted by Handel's "Tolomeo," brought to their hometown of ...

Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...

Stacy Schiff’s best-selling biography from last year, “Cleopatra: A Life,” brought renewed interest in the legendary Egyptian queen, whom the author describes more as a brilliant power broker for her ...

The American Handel Festival, set to bring Seattleites a generous sampling of the master’s music over the next two weeks, got off to an auspicious start on Friday evening. Isabel Bayrakdarian was a ...