The Early Opera Company's sparkling concert performance of Handel's 1718 opera Acis and Galatea, based on Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses and directed from the harpsichord by Christian Curnyn, was a ...

A quarter of a century ago, Mark Morris made a dance out of Handel’s oratorio “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.” Now he’s taken on the Handel opera “Acis and Galatea,” the composer’s most ...

Imagine, if you can, sitting in crisply-pressed linen, sipping a perfectly chilled strawberry mojito wafted to your sidewalk table by a ravishing server, as you listen to the murmur of leaves without ...

The tragedy surrounding the nymph Galatea and her love for the shepherd Acis originates in ancient Greek mythology and was revised and expanded by Ovid for the thirteenth book of his collection of ...

2 Video: Watch PADDINGTON, HERCULES, INTO THE WOODS and More at Day 1 of West End Live 3 Video: Get a Look Inside the West End Capture of HADESTOWN While modest in scale, featuring a cast of merely ...

If you tend to write opera off as a broad-brush art form – big theatres, sweeping gestures, loud emotions – can I recommend a visit to the exquisitely faked small cloister of Iford Manor, nestling in ...

Handel's pastoral opera – Greek idyll turned tragic – offers the perfect masterclass in baroque style, and this production marked a happy collaboration between Nicholas Cleobury's Mid-Wales Opera, ...

The monster triumphs in La Nuova Musica’s dark staging of Handel’s operatic work Even before a note sounded, it was obvious that La Nuova Musica’s version of Handel’s Acis and Galatea, directed by ...