“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

NEW YORK — It’s no secret that classical music institutions are struggling to attract new audiences. This challenge is often on my mind, but I had something of an epiphany about it on Sunday afternoon ...

Just about the most spectacular opera event of the season so far arrived at Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, with the English Concert and Harry Bicket making their annual foray into Handel territory, ...

René Jacobs always brings a certain individual dramatic flair to the Baroque operas that he records, and Handel’s Rinaldo is no exception. The work offers generous opportunities. This was Handel’s ...

A frankly daft Crusading plot is reworked as the cartoonish fantasies of a schoolboy. Bullied by his classmates and bored of his history lesson, he recasts the Crusades with himself as warrior-hero ...

A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Even if they have never heard of George Frideric Handel, most people are aware of the composer’s great Christmas and Easter oratorio, “Messiah,” or, at the ...

Editor’s note: American Baroque Opera Company performances scheduled for March 19 and 21 have been canceled. IRVING — You’ve got to admire the bravery of the American Baroque Opera Company. Founded ...