as well as a comic servant straight out of the loosey-goosey tradition of 17th century Venetian opera. At the same time, Handel's music is never less than emotionally transparent. The amorous ...

Sharon simultaneously pits a lasciviously immoral Venetian opera from 1643 with a new opera ... All aspects of the production and performance are exceptional. That includes the superb chamber ...

Review: STILETTO, Charing Cross Theatre A musical set in the 1730s heyday of Venetian opera ought to be a glamorous glimpse into a different, dangerous era. Stiletto, from the composer behind the ...

Since that Venetian master is one of my favorite painters and Handel is one of my favorite opera composers, I was as close to ecstasy as a rational person can get in a space shared with 3,600 others.

However, once the music began, it quickly became obvious that this performance would be memorable largely ... November 19-21 for three performances of another long neglected Venetian opera. This ...

Heller is writing the volume devoted to “Veremonda, l’ammazone di Aragona,” which has its final performance of ... of women in Baroque Venetian opera. Rosand was her dissertation advisor ...

The Palm Beach Opera's annual black-tie dinner dance featured a performance by soprano Anna ... The night continued in the Venetian Ballroom with dinner, entertainment from a jazz quartet and ...

Why this opera was banned, at least temporarily, is a mystery. Daniele da Castrovillari was a contemporary of fellow Venetian opera com-posers Pier Francesco Cavalli and Marc’Antonio Cesti. While we ...