Just about the most spectacular opera event of the season so far arrived at Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, with the English Concert and Harry Bicket making their annual foray into Handel territory, ...

(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...

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 ...

I still can’t say I’ve been to an official event of the Madison Early Music Festival (yes, that’s a major “tsk, tsk”), but at least I attended the Handel Aria Competition. Launched by Orange and Dean ...

1 Jackie Chan to Make Opera Directing Debut with TURANDOT at Puccini Festival Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, ...

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 ...

Opera, for all its wonders, is an art form with many barriers to entry. Ticket prices can be ruinously expensive, and those intrepid viewers who do attend often encounter large, impersonal performance ...

GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz tells us a story about a singer he discovered only a few months ago without realizing he ...