A triumverate of opera's best and brightest are ready to rule as HGO mounts the Olivier Award-winning English National Opera production, widely regarded as the work's definitive treatment. • Susan ...

But many other glories spill forth, including dreamy or chipper arias for virtually every principal singer and orchestral interludes of Handelian splendor. As conducted by Harry Davidson, the various ...

Love, laughs, betrayal: The story of a powerful man who has everything but the woman he wants. Some things are timeless, no matter how they’re presented, and George Frideric Handel’s frothy dramedy ...

Summer loving: Romilda (Tynan), Arsamenes (Watts) and Xerxes (Coote) enjoy an afternoon love triangle A colourful cast of principals burst into an orderly monochrome world in which white-faced ...

3 Full Cast Set For DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL North American Tour Baroque opera productions can go wrong in so many ways. With their recitatives, lone arias and what some call "repetitious" or ...

Lengthy enough to provoke joking comparisons to Wagner, George Frideric Handel’s “Xerxes” is loosely — very loosely — inspired by the life of the ancient Persian king, an empire builder. If you’re ...

The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

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