Handel News

Jaren Philleo, the principal oboist of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, has assembled an all-star New Orleans quintet to perform music by Bach, Handel and other Baroque composers.

The opera that conquered London in Handel's time comes to the Met in David McVicar's inventive production--which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005.

For hundreds of thousands of Streisand fans, many of whom were Friends of Dorothy, "Classical Barbra" was the album that first introduced them to the songs of Faure, Debussy, Schumann and Wolf.

The Westfair Singers welcome spring with "Spring is Here," a concert featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, Handel, Antonio Lotti and Anthony Newman.

The Bach and Handel Chorale will perform a concert at the Tamaqua Community Arts Center , 125 Pine Street, Tamaqua, on Saturday, May 18.

Throne of Grace School of Dance presents "Royal Redemption," a ballet program, on Saturday.

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The Reading Symphony Orchestra will end its 100th classical subscription series with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No.

Yesterday afternoon at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, the American Bach Soloists concluded their subscription season with music from the vocal compositions of George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Forget about taking the N Train to 57th Street and 7th Avenue. When a New Yorker asks you, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" the required answer is, "Practice, practice, practice." How do you get to Carnegie Hall? You join the UMS Choral Union , and that, my friend, takes you from Tree Town to the Big Apple.

Cambridge Handel Opera takes to the stage with its fifteenth production, Atalanta, with its last two showings tonight and tomorrow at West Road Concert Hall.

The opera that conquered London in Handel's time comes to the Met in David McVicar's inventive production--which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005.

THE tenth Opera in the Church concert will see the return of two singers who delighted the audience in 2012.

The Rider University Chorale, conducted by John McDonnell and accompanied by Brittany Montoro, will perform its annual spring concert on Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gill Memorial Chapel on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville .

Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society has been making history for nearly two centuries - today, it is America's oldest continuously performing arts organization - and the venerable Boston-based period instrument ensemble once again made history in Berkeley over the weekend.

A piece of scenery will wobble, hay fever will sabotage the tenor's high note, an oboist might be irritable and distracted, or a scabbard will refuse to accept its sword.

Fans dressed up as "Star Wars" storm troopers congregate at a previous edition of the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo .

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The Met: Live in HD opera series will present Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel, to be broadcast live on the Peterborough Players big screen today, April 27, 2013, at noon.

What: Handel's "Giulio Cesare," performed by the Metropolitan Opera Where: Eileen and Paul Finkel Auditorium, Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge When: 10 a.m. Saturday Cost: Free More information: Visit www.coloradomtn.edu/web/campuses/breckenridge_dillon Saturday's broadcast of Handel's "Giulio Cesare" will be the last Metropolitan Opera HD ... (more)