Although I appreciate Handel’s extraordinary gift for composing beautiful music, I often find his works, especially his oratorios but also some of his operas, overlong, tedious and downright boring.

Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg studied at the National College of Operatic Art in Stockholm. She regularly appears at the world's leading opera houses and festivals. Her operatic repertoire includes ...

A full-length Solomon, for instance – as delivered by The English Concert with a luxury handful of soloists at the Proms – will reveal that the so-called “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (named, it ...

Enjoying success early in his career by composing Italian operas, towards the middle of the 18th century George Frideric Handel instead turned his attention to English oratorios. One of his more ...

Tucson conductor Enrique Lasansky has performed Handel's landmark oratorio "Messiah" no fewer than 40 times in his career. But it wasn't until recently that he cracked open the score for "Solomon," ...