The Detroit Opera puts a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 opera “Xerxes.” The Detroit Opera has put a contemporary spin on Handel’s classic 1738 “Xerxes” masterpiece about love and the ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

Music from another century, songs written in a foreign language and runtimes that can reach over three hours may make some operas seem unapproachable to people who are not used to the genre. But come ...

Love, laughs, betrayal: The story of a powerful man who has everything but the woman he wants. Some things are timeless, no matter how they’re presented, and George Frideric Handel’s frothy dramedy ...

As timeless as Shakespeare plays, Handel operas shine through the centuries, whether the cast is clad in period costumes or trendy black leather – whether the set is Hampton Court or Club Med.

A triumverate of opera's best and brightest are ready to rule as HGO mounts the Olivier Award-winning English National Opera production, widely regarded as the work's definitive treatment. • Susan ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. George Frideric Handel was a prolific writer and composer. He wrote 42 operas and ...

An exotic pet tree and an odd love triangle are some of the many elements in George Frideric Handel’s “Xerxes.” It is a comic, theatrical opera written in 1738 about love and our responses to it. Even ...

When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria ...