Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the plot, history, performances and recordings of one of Handel’s most enduring operas, Giulio Cesare, first performed at London's Haymarket in 1724. Show more Lucie Skeaping ...

A revival of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” this summer at Glyndebourne, an English opera festival, features three countertenors with three different sounds. By David Belcher It’s a good time to be a ...

Being true to Handel has never been easy, especially where "Giulio Cesare" is concerned. The German composer tinkered extensively with the score in the years after the work's 1724 premiere in London, ...

Sir David McVicar's witty and efferverscent production of Handel's most popular opera, GIULIO CESARE, arrives at the Met with Natalie Dessay and David Daniels in the leading roles and Harry Bicket on ...

In seducing Julius Caesar, Cleopatra won her way into just one heart. Compared with soprano Ruth Ann Swenson -- who on Wednesday night worked her magic on an entire theater's worth of San Francisco ...

Short, squat, silly, a bad actress, with a doughy, cross face and a "figure not advantageous for the stage": this was Horace Walpole's yobbish description of the star soprano who created the role of ...

Rolfe Duaz as Curio and Randall Scotting as Cesare as "Giulio Cesare" at Hudson Hall. Matthew Deming as Nireo and Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra in Hudson Hall's production of "Giulio Cesare." TROY — ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — Douglas Ray Williams knows what it takes to nurture an artistic community. The bass-baritone’s career has flown him around the world and landed him in Great Barrington for a flurry of ...

Opera director and Hudson resident R.B. Schlather reunites with early music band Ruckus for six performances of Handel's baroque blockbuster GIULIO CESARE at Hudson Hall from April 19-May 2, 2025.

English Touring Opera hits the road with a top-notch production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, while his Susanna finally returns to Covent Garden Two very different approaches to Handel found their way on ...