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CHICAGOCHICAGO — A musical drama that deals with jealousy, despair, madness and death, Handel’s “Hercules” was a resounding flop when first presented in 1745. It took nearly 200 years before this dark ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere of Handel’s “Hercules,” this weekend at the Civic Opera House, brings together some of today’s foremost Handel singers in a boldly updated staging by Peter Sellars ...

Grammy Award winner Jonathan Lemalu, one of New Zealand's most internationally successful opera singers, will join the Handel and Haydn Society for two performances of Handel's Hercules on Friday, May ...

The title character arrives onstage late in Handel's opera Hercules. Home from the maelstrom of war, he is provocatively silent, and brings with him a prisoner, the princess Iole. Before the opera is ...

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Internationally renowned director Peter Sellars returns to the Canadian Opera Company this spring with a new company production of Handel's Hercules that propels the Greek myth into the modern day, ...

Ars Lyrica returns to the Hobby Center with a morality tale set to music by both Bach and Handel. The iconic strongman Hercules earned his place in the pantheon not through conquests but rather for ...

An imaginative melding of a 1710 Handel cantata and a 1751 oratorio results in a nifty two-act opera-ballet – and a dazzling cornucopia of images A pair of works by Handel written 40 years apart might ...

Malcolm Arnold’s adaptation of Wycherley’s restoration drama crackles with wit at the Guildhall, but Donizetti’s farce can’t quite keep up the pace When an opera waits more than 60 years for its world ...