Tenor John Tessier sings the title role of Handel's Imeneo, with soprano Amanda Pabyan as the woman who is pledged to marry him, but loves someone else. On the concert stage, Pabyan has performed with ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Each year the London Handel Festival opens with a new opera production. As Handel left around 40 musical dramas in ...

The London Handel festival seems to be working its way through the composer's operas at the steady rate of one per year. The latest choice is a rarely performed piece dating from near the end of ...

ACT 1: Two young women, Rosmene and Clomiri have been kidnapped by pirates. Rosmene's sweetheart, Tirinto, and Clomiri's father, Argenio, are lamenting the women's fate. But before long, the chorus ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There are no rare Handel operas any more. Previous generations may have gone a lifetime without any opportunity to ...

Amazon mp3: $20 | Amazon CD: ~$26 | ArkivMusic: $32 | Qobuz download: £12 - 17.5 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $20 A quick check reveals that Fabio Biondi’s recording of Handel’s penultimate opera Imeneo is ...

All the colours we needed were there in the briefer appearances of the phenomenal Lucy Crowe (pictured above right by Marco Borggreve) as fellow virgin Clomiri, in love with Imeneo and strictly ...

Imeneo was the last Italian opera Handel wrote, and also the shortest. Its London premiere was such a flop that it didn’t get a second performance, with Charles Jennens – Handel’s librettist for ...

Gloria Nicolò Balducci, Countertenor Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Countertenor Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal Stefan Plewniak, Conductor Concerto for Strings Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal Stefan Plewniak, Conductor ...

Handel's Imeneo flopped at its 1740 premiere and little was heard of it until this year, when, rather surprisingly, it has surfaced twice. A staging by Paul Curran formed the centrepiece of the London ...