L’artista sabato in concerto. “Il titolo dell’album allude a mio padre però io descrivo un personaggio di fantasia. Sono ...

The Metropolitan Opera has a winner of a new production – the sparkling, playful and musically rich Giulio Cesare, directed by David McVicar. A very strong cast including star coloratura Natalie ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits. By Arya Roshanian ...

"Giulio Cesare" is, arguably, George Frideric Handel's masterpiece. Yes, it has its fair share of the musical conventions of the time, particularly a plethora of da capo arias. But as Baroque operas ...

Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

Natalie Dessay is snake-bit as Cleopatra, but Christophe Dumaux is bad to the bone as the villainous Tolomeo in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.” Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Bollywood dance numbers, kung fu ...

Director R.B. Schlather’s operas in Hudson Hall are billed as no-frills projects, with talent and materials locally sourced as much as possible. They are popular, judging from the jammed-in, SRO crowd ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — From the moment Davon strode onstage, in showgirl headgear, to lead an awkward audience reciting “E-G-Y-P-T” (What does that spell? Egypt!), we knew that R.B. Schlather had fashioned a ...