Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale's new music director Peter Whelan admires Handel's 1728 masterpiece "Tolomeo," an opus filled with passion, resilience and transformation. "‘Tolomeo' ends with ...

For nearly three decades, Opera Lafayette has steadily been expanding America’s understanding of 17th- and 18th-century opera and, more specifically, works of the French baroque. Founded during the ...

Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...

San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...

There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...

Boston Baroque will present a new production of Mozart’s seminal opera, Don Giovanni, with a contemporary take on the classic story of seduction and betrayal. Performances will take place on Thursday, ...

The hinges of musical history have typically afforded one or two artists most associated with them. At the horizon of the Renaissance looking over into the Baroque period was Italian composer Claudio ...

It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...

We’ve got a Baroque opera minifestival going this weekend, with Lyric Opera performing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Haymarket Opera Company offering a double bill by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Le ...

Boston Baroque premiered their opera “Iphigénie en Tauride” by Christoph Willibald Gluck in the Calderwood Studio at GBH on April 21st. Working with the Production Group Studios team, BB was able to ...