Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

Most of Handel's recitative is gone (thankfully), and the distribution of arias among the lead roles seems a little arbitrary, but a good sense of pace is retained. For the chorus, the company is ...

Before turning to the choral compositions such as Messiah, for which he is best known today, a musicologist produced a string of Italian-language operas that vied for audiences in the ...

Ian Page’s reading didn’t start with the bang and thrust of Rene Jacobs's Harmonia Mundi recording: initially it felt a little well-mannered. But there was a lot more to come, where Page captured the ...