Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This historical revival of Handel's Serse particularly emphasises the humorous ...

Always there is the claim that opera directors need to “breathe new life” into classic works through updatings and reinterpretations. But as the last 50 years of such events have shown, the life ...

Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

Fagioli, though, is something else again. The full-spectrum tantrum of his final aria (“Crude furie degli 'orridi abissi”) became a quite spectacular hissy-fit. It climbed in a trice from ...

Serse-- Handel’s comic opera "Serse" (Xerxes) is notable on several accounts. It is his last opera. In it, Handel gave up the old-fashioned A-B-A aria, which went on forever. Also, yes, this is the ...