Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem (Recitative: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates (Recit./Accomp.: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Now Tell Me, ...

Handel is now best known for his mighty oratorios. ‘Tis the season for Messiah. But he was late to that game, deep as he was into Italian opera, the blockbuster genre of the 18 th century and the one ...

Even among the lofty company of Handel's other oratorios, "Belshazzar" is a stunner. Grandiose, intellectually ambitious and packed with music of astonishing beauty and variety, this is one of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If Handel was with us today, he would surely be in his element writing oratorios for the BBC Proms. It is not just ...

But as a fully-staged piece, as The Grange Festival’s director Michael Chance reminded us after Saturday’s performance, Handel’s story of the fall of Babylon, the triumph of the Persian leader Cyrus, ...

Daniel Slater’s lively staging of the 1744 oratorio is sung with outstanding commitment and attention to detail, with Robert Murray an exceptional lead A collaboration between the Grange festival and ...

When almost 6,000 people in central London settle down to hear an obscure, three-hour baroque oratorio, it can only mean two things: that the Proms are in full swing and that the composer is Handel.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All kinds of works are turning up in opera houses these days which were not intended to be there. A case in ...

However, unauthorised rescoring around the fringes does not prevent the pacing and personality of the music from consistently feeling just right. Allan Clayton sails through the tricky juxtaposition ...

Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...