In seducing Julius Caesar, Cleopatra won her way into just one heart. Compared with soprano Ruth Ann Swenson -- who on Wednesday night worked her magic on an entire theater's worth of San Francisco ...
Handel: Arias from Alcina, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare and Serse Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras, conductor (Forlane). This generally appealing recital ...
Song Hee Lee as Cleopatra amid Ruckus at Hudson Hall. Photo: Paul Kheir Since it began its Carnegie series of Handel operas and oratorios, The English Concert has presented its offerings complete or ...
Most of Handel's recitative is gone (thankfully), and the distribution of arias among the lead roles seems a little arbitrary, but a good sense of pace is retained. For the chorus, the company is ...
Natalie Dessay is snake-bit as Cleopatra, but Christophe Dumaux is bad to the bone as the villainous Tolomeo in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.” Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Bollywood dance numbers, kung fu ...
The Los Angeles Opera bills its current production of Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" as a summit meeting of three countertenors, the first time in the modern era that many specialists in that ...