Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts Jephtha is Handel ...

‘Gloomy’. That’s the word. The story of Jephtha in the Book of Judges isn’t a barrel of laughs. Pushed into leading the Israelites in battle against the Ammonites, Jephtha makes a bargain: Yahweh will ...

Fans of Handel’s music tend to be well-served in Boston over the course of a typical season, but this spring brings an unprecedented opportunity to experience live performances, within the span of a ...

The story of Jephtha is, as the Handel scholar Ruth Smith points out, taken from the oldest account of the fight for possession of land in the Middle East. While that adds more than a frisson in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a good thing the Royal Opera did not choose to present an updated staging of Handel’s Jephtha. In the ...

Handel and Haydn Society Presents Handel Jephtha, conducted by Artistic Director Harry Christophers, in celebration of the 2015 Bicentennial. The piece premiered in the US by H&H in 1855. Performances ...

The State of Israel is at war with its neighbours. No, this is not the World News but a Biblical story that forms the plot of Handel's Jephtha. This is rarely seen, partly because it was not ...

The work was never meant to be staged, but Oliver Mears’s excellently sung production for the Royal Opera makes a strong case for doing so Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Jephtha is, as the Handel scholar Ruth Smith points out, taken from the oldest account of the fight for possession of ...