A phenomenally endearing production, Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and ...

LENOX — Dashon Burton raged into Arcadia at the start of Act 2 as the monstrous Polyphemus, exploding onto the Seiji Ozawa Hall stage and lifting the rest of an otherwise uneven “Acis and Galatea” ...

Last fall the Chicago Opera Theater scored a critical and box-office success with a stylish staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, so it’s wrapping up this season with a revival of another Baroque opera, ...

BERKELEY — Acis, a shepherd, and Galatea, a nymph, are in love. The jealous giant Polyphemus brains Acis. Galatea uses her divine powers to restore her slain swain into a fountain, gently purring ...

CAMBRIDGE — At its debut in 1718, Handel’s pastoral oratorio “Acis and Galatea” had a vocal cast of five and an instrumental complement that might have been as small as seven. The current fully staged ...

The 33rd annual Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar came to a close Sunday afternoon in Newport Harbor Lutheran Church with an ambitious program that was impressively performed. The main order of ...

Part of the enjoyment of the Boston Early Music Festival's own productions is how lightly they often seem to wear the indeterminacy of historically informed performance: how any re-creation of ...

The International Festival of Arts and iIdeas is intentionally scheduled to provide a smooth transition from the end of the school year into the summer entertainment season. Usually, that just means ...

Arcadia, that mythical realm where shepherds and nymphs sport the days away, is a tricky place from a dramatic standpoint. Life there is an abstract pageant, in which nothing much happens except ...

Imagine, if you can, sitting in crisply-pressed linen, sipping a perfectly chilled strawberry mojito wafted to your sidewalk table by a ravishing server, as you listen to the murmur of leaves without ...

Gap ads of recent vintage seem to have been among the inspirations for Mark Lamos' playful and poignant new production of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" at City Opera. Everyone's in khaki for this ...