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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continuing its ambitious project to perform every two years one opera from the entire list of Handel’s 40 and more, the award-winning Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC), with artistic director and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...