The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel. He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711 as ...

This has been a rough year for the stars at Lyric Opera. After opening as Violetta in “La Traviata,” soprano Albina Shagimuratova has been forced to miss several performances due to laryngitis.

NEW YORK — When talk turns to whether the Metropolitan Opera should put on old works — like 1709 old — habits die hard. The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in ...

Opera Santa Barbara opens the new year with its third company premiere of the season: a 90-minute adaptation of Handel’s comedy “Semele,” set in Hollywood’s silent movie era. Performances take place ...

With opera companies eager to perform works by creators from groups previously underrepresented on their stages, the biracial composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), is having ...