Although I appreciate Handel’s extraordinary gift for composing beautiful music, I often find his works, especially his oratorios but also some of his operas, overlong, tedious and downright boring.

Enjoying success early in his career by composing Italian operas, towards the middle of the 18th century George Frideric Handel instead turned his attention to English oratorios. One of his more ...

Setting aside the much more frequently performed "Messiah," Handel's "Solomon" is among the most lush and lavish of the great Baroque composer's oratorios, based on the life and legendary wisdom of ...

George Frideric Handel wrote some 40 operas in Italian before he began to find his niche as a composer of choral works in English. The turning point came with his dramatic oratorio Alexander’s Feast, ...

Tucson conductor Enrique Lasansky has performed Handel's landmark oratorio "Messiah" no fewer than 40 times in his career. But it wasn't until recently that he cracked open the score for "Solomon," ...