I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...

That meant cramming more than 60 musicians in to the east end of the not exactly commodious St George’s Hanover Square, and some curious balances for many of us in the packed church. I got an earful ...

It was an “Esther”-fest at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Thursday night, as Opera Lafayette presented the two-part program, “From St. Cyr to Cannons: Moreau and Handel’s Esther.” The concert ...

The King’s Counterpoint performs the third concert in its Handelian Oratorio Series, this time presenting "Esther" at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at Synagogue Emanu-El, 5 Windsor Drive, West Ashley.

Friday night's all-Handel concert, featuring his oratorio Esther, was a first-rate performance by Lyra Baroque Orchestra. The evening began with an engaging and humorous pre-concert talk by Diane ...

HANDEL'S Esther was his first attempt at oratorio in English - its first short version of (probably) 1718 being revised for what was still an experimental art-form in 1732. But it succeeded and kept ...

If Michael was the archangel to save Heaven, Esther was the queen to save Jews in Persia. And if angels are companions on earth, it's also said they will carry souls to Heaven. Bach cantatas 50,19,149 ...

Esther, Handel's first oratorio in English, has a powerful subject. Haman, the villain of the piece, proposes a holocaust with the words: "It is decreed, All the Jewish race shall bleed." His plan is ...