Handel Festival Göttingen: Siroe, Re di Persia
This new production of Handel's rarely performed opera seria does much to recommend the work to modern audiences.
Oxford Early Music Festival
The inaugural Oxford Early Music Festival gets off to a promising start with energetic, albeit idiosyncratic, performances of Renaissance and Baroque greats.
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: The Met in HD Encore
A radical revamping brings out the best in David McVicar's classic Glyndebourne production.
Charpentier: Medea
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea receives an intense UK premiere in David McVicar's new production for ENO.
Scarlatti and Handel at Princeton
Princeton University Chamber Choir and Westminster Kantorei join forces in a daring and fresh performance of Handel and Scarlatti.
English Touring Opera: Così fan tutte
A particularly engaging Così fan tutte opens what promises to be a great operatic season for ETO.
Purcell, Handel, Telemann and Bach at Princeton
A beautiful performance by Harry Bicket and The English Concert throws up questions about the relationship between modern performance practice and scholarship.
Bach: The Art of Fugue
Phantasm present a spell-bindingly clear version of JS Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge.
Handel: Radamisto
The English Concert present an almost perfect concert performance of Handel's luscious opera.
Lucio Silla vs. Lucio Silla
It's Mozart versus Bach in this comparative essay on the composers' settings of Lucio Silla, both recently performed at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg.