The master of Baroque opera had the art of the aria perfected. Some of his most thrilling arias are rage arias, where the soloist would fire out huge lines of rapid, impassioned notes. But this is ...

Artaserse” may have the prince’s name in its title, but Key’mon Murrah, making his Haymarket debut, was unquestionably the ...

Baroque Opera, With an Ear for the Modern. By MARK SWED . April 30, 2002 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. Email; ... One of Handel’s most famous arias, ...

Nearly every opera is both a continuous drama and ... Bajazet's death is among the most dramatic solo scenes in all of Baroque opera. ... 2007 • In the moving aria "O patria mia," the title ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend ...

But this week Baroque opera makes an intriguing return with a piece by a Spanish composer whom Handel could have claimed as a colleague: Antonio Literes (1673-1747), whose “Los Elementos ...

A concert of early 1900s French songs will be followed by two fully staged productions of Haydn and Donizetti operas ...

Francisco came next with an aria (“Ah! Si la liberté me doit être ravie”) from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Armide” (1777), performed by Opera Lafayette in 2007 as part of its ...

Complete Information About Giulio Cesare: A Baroque Chamber Opera in San Diego at First Baptist Church of Glendale. In 1724, George Frideric Handel brought the timeless love story of Julius Caesar ...

What are the best opera arias? Step this way, for the most popular show-stoppers for the big stage. This really must be the most famous opera aria in the world – thanks in no small part to Italia 1990 ...