San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season continues with George Frideric Handel’s Partenope in director Christopher Alden’s award-winning production. Last seen on the War Memorial Opera House stage in ...

San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season will continue June 15 with George Frideric Handel’s Partenope in director Christopher Alden’s award-winning production. Last seen on the War Memorial Opera ...

And if there’s a more perfect setting for that summer opera than Harold Peto’s Italianate gardens and cloister at Iford Manor it’s hard to imagine. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking that this ...

HANDEL'S Partenope is a relatively rare visitor to the opera stage and it has taken nine years for Christopher Alden's award-winning production to return to the English National Opera but the wait has ...

Four suitors for one woman –one is a transvestite in disguise – is the point of departure of one of the most remarkable operas composed by Handel for the audiences of London. With Partenope, the Saxon ...

Partenope one of Handel’s best Italian operas? Probably not, though as in all good comedies there are moments of depth, mostly in the last act; we even begin to care about the fraught relationship ...

NAPLES – At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films. On ...

Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of Radio 3, Director of the Proms and Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. He has written and lectured ...

In this OCS, Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra discuss Handel's 1730 comic opera Partenope. Set in Ancient Naples, Partenope is the story of the ...

Despite the culottes and mustachios, ENO’s revival of its 2008 production retains enough substance to back up its arch styling This is a welcome return to English National Opera for its 2008 ...

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty ...