George Frideric Handel was one of those rare composers who ... Handel introduced himself to the city of London with his opera Rinaldo in 1711, which was such a success that he decided to remain ...

Lavrenchuk's condition for the production of George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo was that it would not include representatives from Russia. He had already selected performers from various ...

Experience the glorious majesty of Handel's Messiah performed by the Grammy Award-winning SF Symphony Chorus and world-class soloists. George Frideric Handel's Messiah was an instant classic soon ...

Handel's Water Music is made up of three orchestral suites, written for an outdoor performance for King George I on the Thames. Handel composed his wonderfully jolly Water Music around 1717. and it ...

The story of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—its composition, premier and gradual rise to worldwide popularity—has been told many times. Charles King’s innovation in “Every Valley ...

Boston Baroque’s well-casted and boldly presented “Ariodante” was a musically memorable performance of Handel’s underrated masterpiece.

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

(Courtesy of Doubleday and Mary Fecteau) Host Scott Tong gets the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" with Georgetown professor Charles King, author of ...

It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly ...