Review: Handel: Semele (Monteverdi Choir)
Sexy, vain and petulant – a Semele for our times?
August 27, 2020
Review: Handel: Agrippina (Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli)
Make room in your collection – this Agrippina’s one for the ages.
July 16, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget picks 18th and 21st century winners, and then puts three rings on it.
May 15, 2020
Pinchgut Opera to present Australian premiere of Charpentier’s Médée
The 2020 season also includes Handel's Rinaldo plus concerts of Charpentier, Purcell, Monteverdi and Gabrieli.
August 2, 2019
Review: Handel: Acis and Galatea (The Sixteen/Harry Christophers)
The Sixteen brings intimacy and lightness of touch.
June 3, 2019
Review: Handel: Serse (Franco Fagioli ct, Il Pomo D’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev)
Nothing shady about Xerxes in a hot new Handel recording.
May 6, 2019
Review: Handel: Italian Cantatas (Carolyn Sampson)
Sampson gives Handel’s Italian cantatas the full operatic treatment.
March 14, 2019
Review: Handel: Agrippina (Theater an den Wien/Hengelbrock)
Robert Carsen’s update has bed-hopping and bare bods to spare.
February 5, 2019
Review: Handel’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Does this treasured Christmas tradition need a little more TLC?
December 17, 2018
Stephan Loges on performing Messiah as if it were the first time
The German bass-baritone talks Handel, Bach and Frankenstein ahead of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Messiah.
December 6, 2018
Review: Handel • Vinci: Didone Abbandonata (Lautten Compagney/Wolfgang Katschner)
First recording of a Vinci opera preserved, all thanks to Handel.
October 11, 2018
Review: Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol 2
Handel’s tyrants, kings and fathers brought to musical life.
October 2, 2018
Review: Handel: Acis and Galatea (Early Opera Company/Curnyn)
Nymphs and shepherds more than live up to pastoral promise.
September 3, 2018