Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a cardiologist convention and absolutely gorgeous singing ...

A lively festival in a vibrant Derbyshire spa town, Buxton International Festival has a strong tradition of staging both popular and overlooked operas. This year’s repertoire features familiar ...

The irrationalities of desire among a quartet of lovers are the focus of Handel’s opera in James Conway’s lively and fluent new production The sole work in English Touring Opera’s autumn season is ...

Unlike other enchanted operas of Handel, such as the earlier Rinaldo or the later Alcina, Amadigi is not one of his better known. Both Jonathan Peter Kenny and James Conway, respectively conductor and ...

With its Chicago debut of Handel’s 1715 opera seria “Amadigi di Gaula,” Haymarket Opera Company has closed a circle, and done so with all the virtues that have made the period-instrument troupe so ...

Opera Settecento and Leo Duarte give a luminous London Handel Festival account of this unjustly neglected Handel, with Michał Czerniawski a superb Amadigi and Erica Eloff a magnetic Melissa It ...

Michael Frayn’s “copperbottomed modern classic” Copenhagen is a shrewd choice for staging amid the ongoing Covid uncertainty, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. It features just three ...

It’s day seven on “Melissa’s Island”. Melissa is grafting hottie Amadigi but he keeps mugging her off. Amadigi’s head’s been turned by fit bird Oriana, but snakey Dardano is trying to crack on with ...

English Touring Opera, which recently caused controversy by parting company with at least 14 regular orchestral musicians in order to increase its diversity in line with Arts Council policy, launched ...