First seen in 1996, controversial director Peter Sellars' adaptation of Handel's English oratorio is brilliantly revived and remains a stunning piece of music theatre. The biblical story of the ...

Theodora was Handel’s penultimate oratorio and his least successful. The London premiere came in March of 1750, but the work closed after just three performances. English language sung ...

The brave Christian noblewoman Theodora is arrested and thrown into prison because she refuses to honour the Emperor, and threatened with a fate worse than death – as a sex-worker for the President ...

The East Sussex opera house is home to the famed Glyndebourne Festival every summer – here’s everything that happens in this historic place of music. Almost a century old, the Glyndebourne Festival ...

Britain's operatic cold war, whereby the major English regional companies were rejected by Scotland and Scottish Opera was excluded from England, seems at last to be over. As an act of depressing ...

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The Peter Sellars production of Handels Theodora recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival in May 1996 Dawn Upshaw stars as Theodora with David Daniels as Didymus Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Irene ...

Handel’s historical oratorio Theodora is one of his most sublime works. And the fact that Katie Mitchell’s new production is brandished as state-of-the-art feminism, boasting two top-of-the-range pole ...

Theodora is a moralistic tale of Christians persecuted and martyred in Roman Antioch. (Fun fact: the novel on which it is based was by Robert Boyle, he of Boyle’s Law of gas expansion). Theodora ...

HOW LONG can it take for a flop to become a smash? In the case of one of George Frideric Handel’s oratorios, the answer is around 250 years. In February 1750 the composer turned 65. A few weeks later ...