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 new season opens with Music of the Baroques first performance in over three decades of Handels final oratorio. Working furiously while his eyesight was failing, Handel tells the story of Jephtha, ...

Those four words open the libretto of Handel’s biblical oratorio “Jephtha,” the composer’s last major work. But the words are more than part of a character’s scene-setting speech. They presage the ...

Jephtha, the last and perhaps the greatest of Handel's biblical oratorios, treats that familiar mythological story about the parent required to sacrifice his child: Jephtha, appointed Israelite ...

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 ...

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 ...

correctionA music review in the May 8 Style section stated that the Maryland Handel Festival had never performed Handel's "Hercules." In fact it was performed at the festival in 1992. (Published ...

The Handel and Haydn Society, which brought Handel’s last oratorio “Jephtha” to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night, is not your grandfather’s H&H.; Not your great-grandfather’s, your ...

Composed in 1751, George Frideric Handel’s Jephtha is based on the story from Judges XI and George Buchanan’s 1554 play Jephthes, sive Votum. It is recognised as his final oratorio, since The Triumph ...

The passing years have brought triumphs and tragedies to Chicago`s Music of the Baroque, but this ensemble never ceases to deepen its art. Witness its poignant performance Wednesday evening at First ...

I wonder what Radcliffe would say about Katie Mitchell’s production for Welsh National Opera, revived this weekend by Robin Tebbutt, and a classic case of a director’s reluctance to allow an ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This recording followed a live performance at the Barbican which was generally regarded as being high in dramatic ...