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 ...

Any way you look at it — and, especially, every way you listen to it—Houston Grand Opera's first-ever production of Handel's Xerxes proves a royal treat. With supernovas Susan Graham, Laura Claycomb ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When Handel's opera, Xerxes, was first staged in 1738, the central role of the ancient Persian king was performed by the most celebrated castrati of the time, Gaetano Majorano - better known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aided by the cogent wit of Nicholas Hytner’s classic English translation, director James Conway strips away orientalist issues and pantaloons alike, and plunges us instead into a wartime montage of ...