In their upcoming production, members of the Yale Baroque Opera Project will perform in English for the first time ever. “Erismena,” with music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Aurelio Aureli, ...

NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...

Music historians generally agree that Western opera began around the turn of the 17th Century in Europe. However, the modern repertoire generally ignores the first 150 years in favor of the works of ...

There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...

A Cocktail of Wit, Style and Baroque Fireworks in Partenope. English National Opera’s new production of Partenope bursts onto ...

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra comes to Seiji Ozawa Hall for a performance of Handel’s pastoral opera featuring the company’s period instruments and a cast of expert singers. The San ...

Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...