(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

This is a Handel year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. We remember George Frideric Handel primarily for his oratorio, "Messiah," one of the greatest masterpieces in the classical canon.

A recital by The King’s Consort at the Wigmore Hall of Handel’s little-known Nine German Arias, performed with three of the composer’s oboe works, was a pleasant rather than revelatory evening. The ...

I still can’t say I’ve been to an official event of the Madison Early Music Festival (yes, that’s a major “tsk, tsk”), but at least I attended the Handel Aria Competition. Launched by Orange and Dean ...

George Frideric Handel — an immortal composer by any standard — wrote over 40 operas. For much of his career, they were his primary source of income and recognition. But these operas — written in ...

This production – which partners revivals of their Ottone and Agrippina in the company’s itinerant autumn “Handelfest” – might certainly shock anyone who still thinks of Baroque opera as a string of ...