Handel

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A bumper year for opera in both city and country houses, concerts marking 250 years of Beethoven's legacy and a chance to catch the biggest names in music today

In the Know

Opera 

English National Opera got back on its feet, the Proms went from strength to strength, and the Royal Opera House season grew and grew

Tried and Tested

Dance 

The Russian superstar ballerina Svetlana Zakharova’s Modanse, now showing at Coliseum, is a double bill where high fashion meets dance and often supplants it

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Opera 

The 10 best performances that herald Christmas with compelling story-telling, grand choruses and spectacular solos sung by the finest artists

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Opera 

The Royal Opera House tenor talks to Stephen Pritchard about the Messiah season, perpetual youth and getting lost backstage at Covent Garden

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Joyce DiDonato leads an all-star cast in Barrie Kosky's thrilling production of Handel's opera of ambition and revenge

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Opera 

Composer Gerald Barry on discovering books and music, and two forthcoming Royal Opera House productions

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Opera 

Mozart, Handel, Britten, Donizetti – and a new opera for all the family

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The triumphant return of a Handel opera to Covent Garden, after 280 years, is a tremendous curtain-raiser for the London Handel Festival

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Opera 

Dvorak, Mozart, Rossini and more, plus a rarity directed by Fiona Shaw in a season that opens with a big Berlioz bang

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Opera 

Stand by for the hottest tickets in opera: this season's Glyndebourne booking opens to the public on 3 March. Here are the shows to catch

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Tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Handel's heroic opera stars counter-tenor Tim Mead and Elizabeth DeShong

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Opera 

The soprano on composer Barbara Strozzi, keeping fit on stage, and her fantasy opera roles

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Opera 

London's greatest composer was born in Germany, and given British citizenship. This month of concerts, walks and talks celebrates the enduring impact of George Frideric Handel on the capital

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Classical Music 

Where else would Schumann, Purcell and Handel rub shoulders with Joy Division and Arcade Fire? Musical barriers come down at this sparky winter fixture

Tried and Tested

Opera 

A complex tale of tyranny, lust and betrayal is simply told through music in a stylish new production

Tried and Tested

Dance 

Vivaldi and Handel provide the score to two contrasting new works brought to the Peacock Theatre by New English Ballet Theatre.

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Opera 

Handel and Purcell weave tales of love and duty into ethereal works staged in style by the country's premier touring company

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Classical Music 

A fortnight of world-class performances in small-scale venues, featuring music from Bach and Beethoven to Dixieland and Jerome Kern

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Best of 

Let rip with the tango, be moved by Handel and Britten, then party at the tuneful Last Night

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Classical Music 

Composer of film, TV soundtracks and concert works talks to Claudia Pritchard about music in schools, a brand new work, and the cost to creativity of leaving the EU

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Classical Music 

Sacred music by JS Bach and Handel preside over Easter music programmes throughout London. Here are the best works performed by the best musicians

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Opera 

A Bollywood version of Handel's opera is an all-singing, all-dancing treat. Giulio Cesare makes Glyndebourne Festival Opera the home of hot rhythm

Tried and Tested

Opera 

Deliciously sung but oddly dished-up, Handel's noble Rodelinda gets a slapstick treatment

Last Chance

Classical Music 

Catch the soprano most talked about this year in an evening of dazzling music by Handel

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Classical Music 

It starts with nursery rhymes, says the soprano in demand all over the world after picking up award after award. Happily, there are London area performances in store...

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Players and singers in 18th-century attire bring to life the London-based world of composer Handel

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Classical Music 

There's something for everyone in a week of Christmas music

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Classical Music 

Handel made London his home, and not so far from where he lived his music is still played in the manner he would have known

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Classical Music 

Messiah is often sung and played by enormous forces, but smaller ensembles like this bring an electrifying directness and pace to the great oratorio

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Passion, heroism and pure knockabout comedy are the stars of a year of Coliseum highlights, launching 28 September, and all the operas are sung in English

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Opera 

The might of the Roman Empire is rocked by the weakness of the heart in a monumental 18th-century opera