The making of a coin is like the making of a successful political campaign: The artist must clarify and concentrate a big idea into a symbol or slogan, so simple and telling that even the distracted ...

The opera is one of many that Handel wrote as part of London’s craze for the Italian opera seria form – which featured multiple arias for its virtuoso singers – and began when he himself composed ...

This is a fairly recent retelling of the early events in the Yakuza games, as the live-action adaptation first showed up on Amazon Prime Video in Japan in February 2026. It also isn’t a direct 1:1 ...

The epic Baroque opera about the love story which shaped empires! George Frideric Handel’s opera “Giulio Cesare” (Italian for Julius Caesar) set London afire with its passionate music in 1723. In 2026 ...

So dramatic are they in fact, that these days we seem just as likely to see them staged as not, and it’s obvious that the spirit of opera lived on strong to the end of Handel’s career albeit ...

Hollywood star Ryan Gosling revealed a surprising childhood passion for soap operas, particularly 'Days of Our Lives,' admitting he'd feign illness to watch them. He expressed deep respect for soap ...

Contemporary resonances abound in English Touring Opera’s gloriously choreographed and costumed period production: a masterclass in clarity over chaos, performed with boundless enthusiasm The ...

With its production of this work by Handel, the Cambridge Handel Opera Company can claim two distinctions: staging a rarely performed opera, and doing so in a Georgian-era venue that is infrequently ...

The world-renowned countertenor discusses building The Grange Festival from scratch, balancing adventurous programming with audience expectations and why opera must engage emotionally to remain ...

An award-winning company is set to bring a reimagined classic opera to Droitwich. Opera Worcester will perform Bizet’s Carmen, in English, at the Norbury Theatre from Wednesday, March 25 to Saturday, ...