At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song ...
In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion).
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 ...