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I never thought I’d say such a thing, but the world did not need another recording of Giulio Cesare. Including DVDs, there are more than
Handel’s Alessandro is practically a comic opera despite having as its hero the not-particularly-amusing Alexander the Great. Rather than focusing on his warrior image, the
The Met is not known for its Handel productions; the composer would hardly know what to do with 4,000 spectators unless they were on the
By now Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin has appeared on a couple of dozen recordings and she always impresses. Aside from some Mozart, Britten, Barber, and
This production, from Glyndebourne, is a pain in the neck. The plot is well-known: taking place during the First Crusade, the knight Rinaldo must choose
In 1983 The Sixteen recorded a Messiah, a live production
It’s no disservice to Handel, whose splendid Utrech Te Deum
Keeping track of EMI’s countless Sviatoslav Richter reissues and re-couplings
The period performance movement has so come to dominate the
Theodora is an oratorio and not an opera. It is a pious piece, with an unambiguously Christian subject matter. It first appeared in 1750 at
