PRINCETON — The pages sit there, looking somewhat faded and fragile. Several of them contain musical staves, with notes splashed across in dark black ink. One clue as to the genius within this rare ...

As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent ...

Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda and Nicholas Thurbin as Flavio - Alastair Muir Handel’s great 1725 opera Rodelinda is as confusing as any from the Baroque era, but underneath the shifting alliances there is a ...

Martha Birnbaum is a native Cambridge resident and a lifelong devotee to opera. An agent of change, Birnbaum founded The Cambridge Chamber Ensemble with many “firsts” by premiering new English ...