Giulio Cesare or Julius Carsar is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola ...

SEATTLE – Speight Jenkins is a man who hears voices. The general director of Seattle Opera is regarded for his ability to uncover opera talent, and when he encounters a great singer, he figures out ...

In the old days, record companies offered you an opera in a box set. But they also offered you a highlights album: a single LP. You know the problem with Handel’s Julius Caesar? It is, basically, ...

Emily Pogorelc as Cleopatra in 2024 Opera Theatre of St. Louis production of Handel's 'Julius Caesar,' at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center in St. Louis, Mo. Eric Woolsey ST. LOUIS — Along ...

The Houston Grand Opera has announced a 2017-18 season that blends treasured titles such as "La Traviata and "The Barber of Seville" with new adaptations of originally non-operatic works, including ...

The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...