Bennett Tucker on Handel’s “La resurrezione,” performed by the Barrocada collective, at St John’s Anglican Church, Haifa, Israel ...

At the tender age of twenty-one, George Frideric Handel left Hamburg on a trip to Italy, where he intended to acquaint himself with Italian musical styles. Handel visited Florence, Rome, Naples, and ...

Handel wrote two Easter oratorios. One is the “Messiah,” taken over by Christmas, the extravagant “Hallelujah” chorus so well suited to the season. The other is in every conceivable way not the ...

Georg Friederich Händel (as he was known before Anglicizing his name) was barely into his 20s when he was attracting international attention. Indeed, he was soon whisked from his native Germany to ...

Sarah Brailey in Haymarket Opera Company's production of George Frideric Handel's La Resurrezione, conducted by Christian Curnyn (left) Credit: Elliot Mandel It’s safe to assume that any Haymarket ...

After all, La Resurrezione is an opera in all but name, a sacred drama hiding behind the oratorio label because of the Papal ban on opera in Rome during that period. In common with many operas of the ...