The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

Julius Caesar Georg Friedrich Händel Passion runs deep when Giulio Cesare arrives in Egypt and encounters the beautiful Cleopatra for the first time. In 1724, the German composer Georg Friedrich ...

Season opening show marks a return to indoor productions. After an intense battle with a bitter rival during the Roman civil war, Julius Caesar moves toward Egypt with his head held high but more than ...

The Detroit Opera House was the most glamorous venue in town on opening night of "Julius Caesar." Michigan Opera Theatre presented an unconventional production by Handel. It enlisted countertenor ...

The Houston Grand Opera has announced a 2017-18 season that blends treasured titles such as "La Traviata and "The Barber of Seville" with new adaptations of originally non-operatic works, including ...

Lou Harrison, the beloved California composer, would have turned 100 this spring, and arguably the most important centenary event will come Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall with a sold-out staged ...

Julius Caesar is the greatest of Handel’s operas, and one of the greatest of all opera seria; it contains arias which can stand with the finest by Mozart or Verdi in terms of exploration of character ...

Although Handel's opera "Julius Caesar," known as "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in its native tongue of Italian, is regarded one of his greatest works for the stage, it went out of fashion just like the ...

Season opening show marks a return to indoor productions. After an intense battle with a bitter rival during the Roman civil war, Julius Caesar moves toward Egypt with his head held high but more than ...