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CHICAGOCHICAGO — A musical drama that deals with jealousy, despair, madness and death, Handel’s “Hercules” was a resounding flop when first presented in 1745. It took nearly 200 years before this dark ...

Grammy Award winner Jonathan Lemalu, one of New Zealand's most internationally successful opera singers, will join the Handel and Haydn Society for two performances of Handel's Hercules on Friday, May ...

Ars Lyrica returns to the Hobby Center with a morality tale set to music by both Bach and Handel. The iconic strongman Hercules earned his place in the pantheon not through conquests but rather for ...

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The title character arrives onstage late in Handel's opera Hercules. Home from the maelstrom of war, he is provocatively silent, and brings with him a prisoner, the princess Iole. Before the opera is ...

Malcolm Arnold’s adaptation of Wycherley’s restoration drama crackles with wit at the Guildhall, but Donizetti’s farce can’t quite keep up the pace When an opera waits more than 60 years for its world ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere of Handel’s “Hercules,” this weekend at the Civic Opera House, brings together some of today’s foremost Handel singers in a boldly updated staging by Peter Sellars ...

If you’re thinking of the muscle-bound hero of action films—or even Disney animation—boy, have you got the wrong HERCULES. As soon as Harry Bicket and his early music ensemble, ‘The English Concert,’ ...

"Annual visits from the English Concert to Cal Performances have become must-see, must-hear, must-experience events." -Seen and Heard International Britain's extraordinary early-music ensemble visits ...