The Aspen Music Festival went into scramble mode on Wednesday when star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato was injured and had to ...

It's so much more than a lab and a rodeo.

Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano, Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor, James Gilchrist and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composers over the ...

Ringwall und Richter-Fenster: Nicht nur die Kelten verstanden im heutigen Saarland zu leben. Heute verbinden sich dort ...

Oberursel (ow) – Die Busfahrt des Geschichts- und Kulturkreises Oberstedten am Samstag, 13. Juni, führte die 43 Teilnehmer zu ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps there's no sweeter way to beat the summer heat than with a scoop — or two, or three — of ice cream.

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 ...

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 ...