Midsommar is one of the most celebrated holidays in Sweden, taking place every June during the summer solstice. We mark this with a concert from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with soprano and ...

Jane Jones revisits some pure entertainment from Handel. I have been wondering lately how much of Handel’s popular and accomplished pieces now suffer from a casual familiarity which blunts our ...

On March 10, 1942, a German military aircraft equipped with special cameras took off from an air base outside Nikolaev, Ukraine. The nine-hour reconnaissance flight of the Junkers Ju 88 covered more ...

July 16, 2026 • NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman of Georgetown University about the Defense Department's plan to screen service members' testosterone levels and offer ...

Handel's jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks is music fit for a king - George II, in fact, who attended the first performance on the River Thames in 1749. Handel composed his Music for the Royal ...

George Frederic Handel, the famous composer, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, with a monument on the wall above. He was born at Halle in Saxony in 1685, son of Georg and his ...

David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pit The year 1724 found Handel at the very ...

George Frideric Handel’s father was a barber and valet to the Prince of Saxe-Magdeburg. He was in his mid-sixties when his son was born and he hated music. Somehow young Handel managed to learn the ...

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Orlando is now regarded as one of Handel’s finest operas, although it achieved only limited success on its premiere production in 1733 when it was staged at the King’s Theatre in London. With a ...

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