Handel’s collision of royal politics and love is played with conviction by a strong cast led by Claire Booth, under the direction of Adele Thomas ‘Politics is cursed,” sighs the queen’s adviser in ...

We are frequently treated to performances of his Messiah, Fireworks Music and Water Music, yet most of his other works, for all their brilliance, have been comparatively neglected, few more unjustly ...

The start is immensely promising in the handsomely refurbished Linbury Theatre (oh, the smell of all that wood). From the orchestral censer straight up rise grateful plumes of incense to the very top ...

When Handel first premiered his mannered comic opera about the deadly dance of love and politics between the Egyptian monarch and her Roman suitors in 1737, he tasted defeat. Berenice, named for the ...

Handel's Berenice returns to Covent Garden in a new co-production by The Royal Opera and London Handel Festival, nearly 282 years after its 1737 premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, a forerunner to ...

The Royal Opera’s beautiful new Linbury Theatre is worthy of a visit in itself, no matter what is being staged, just so as to experience its warm, ultra-sympathetic acoustic. When Handel is being ...

For 250 years, until it was revived by enterprising students at the University of Keele in 1985, Handel’s Berenice was forgotten. Even today it’s neglected, in spite of the fact that it’s full of ...