TROY – Hudson is becoming an opera destination, at least every 18 months or so. That’s the pace at which the resourceful and imaginative young director R.B. Schlather has been mounting striking new ...

Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...

William Shakespeare, in the early years of the 17th century, had been unable to resist bringing to the stage the character of Cleopatra, the bewitching and impetuous queen of Egypt, mistress of Caesar ...

In 1724, George Frideric Handel brought the timeless love story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life in music through his exquisite opera Giulio Cesare. In honor of this dramatic work's 300th ...

Modest budgeting means a spare but effective and unfussy production from Tom Creed which brings out the best in everyone, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan, no less, is there to ...

Ideal lovers: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Cesare and Louise Alder as Cleopatra No Cesare can afford a less than lustrous mother and son, Handel usually spends a first act setting up characters at leisure; ...

NIGHTS (AND AFTERNOONS) AT THE OPERA / This is the 11th and last in a season-long series about the works the Metropolitan Opera will present during its 2012-13 "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

Famed countertenor Andreas Scholl sings the title role of Roman emperor Julius Caesar in this memorable production of Georg Friederich Handel's "Giulio Cesare," staged at the Royal Danish Opera.

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay star in David McVicar‘s innovative production of Handel’s most popular opera in this season’s final broadcast of Great Performances at the Met Sunday, September 1 at ...