Most people who experience George Frideric Handel’s operas do so as spectators, taking in the music and drama onstage from a comfy, velvet-wrapped seat in the audience. Conductor Jane Glover, however, ...

Ellen T. Harris’ new book “George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends” isn’t a conventional Handel biography. The author opens with the composer on his deathbed, in the city where he lived for nearly ...

Before turning to the choral compositions such as Messiah, for which he is best known today, a musicologist produced a string of Italian-language operas that vied for audiences in the ...