Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

Let’s talk about adapting opera. I have no problem with a director deciding to abridge a Shakespeare play for performance, or even to modernize its language. I also have no problem when cuts are made ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Washington, DC & beyond. Rare as it is to hear Handel's opera "Serse" at all - it was scarcely performed at all for 200 years following its 1738 debut - it's even ...