Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rare as it is to hear Handel's opera "Serse" at all - it was scarcely performed at ...

Exciting historical performance ensemble Figure will bring a fresh and intimate semi-staged performance of Handel's Serse to London's Opera Holland Park this June. The recently established group aims ...

Always there is the claim that opera directors need to “breathe new life” into classic works through updatings and reinterpretations. But as the last 50 years of such events have shown, the life ...

Fagioli, though, is something else again. The full-spectrum tantrum of his final aria (“Crude furie degli 'orridi abissi”) became a quite spectacular hissy-fit. It climbed in a trice from ...

In perhaps the most delightful opening aria in all opera, Serse, the Greek king Xerxes, sings a wondrously beautiful love song to a tree -- “Ombra mai fu.” And the Serse of this irresistible recording ...

An opera that starts with a monarch’s love song to a tree might suggest something Monty Python-esque, but it makes perfect sense (well, maybe not quite perfect) in Handel’s Serse, which combines ...

This production comes from the Dresden Music Festival of 2000 The stage director is Michael Hampe who was behind the similarly excellent Schwetzingen Agrippina from 1985 also released on a EuroArts ...

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Think of the graceful melody known as Handel’s Largo, from the composer’s 1738 opera Serse (Xerxes). This is music calculated to melt the heart, with its stately descending phrase — “Ombra mai fu” — ...