Rinaldo was the first Italian opera written for the London stage, and it catapulted the young Handel to fame and fortune with its brilliant display of arias, duets and innovative orchestral effects.

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Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...

The English Concert performed George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo at the Zhongshan Park Concert Hall on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Beijing audiences were treated to a night of ...

Sydney-based Pinchgut Opera is internationally praised for research-driven revivals of baroque opera gems with an acute attention to historically-informed interpretation of the music. In this ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

NEW YORK — It’s no secret that classical music institutions are struggling to attract new audiences. This challenge is often on my mind, but I had something of an epiphany about it on Sunday afternoon ...

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Handel's reputation was preceded him across the English channel. "The news of his uncommon ability were, even before his arrival in England, there spread out," recorded his first biographer John ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Remarkably, in its more than two decades as the nation’s leading baroque opera specialist, Pinchgut Opera, has never performed an opera ...