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Handel's oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno receives its first-ever performance at Berlin's Philharmonie, proving that in the hands of Emmanuelle Haïm beauty can indeed defeat time. 

Àlex Ollé directs a rare version of Idoménée in Berlin, in which the staging fares better than the singing. 

How can one focus on the music? Purcell’s music is interspersed with contemporary interludes by Atsushi Sakaï in an overly busy staging.  

A great cast of exciting singers seals a success in Lille, despite a new production which fails to convince.

Familiarity doesn't always breed contempt: Bach's famous Air proves the highlight of an enjoyable evening of Purcell, Bach and Pergolesi in the magnificent surroundings of Disney Hall.

Directed by Emmanuelle Haïm, French period instrument ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée served up a few choice cuts of Figaro Harmoniemusik before a delicious main course of the Gran Partita.

Under conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra stepped out of its classical Romantic core repertoire to play an evening of Handel. 

Emmanuelle Haïm leads Christiane Karg and Sonia Prina in Handel's sacred oratorio La resurrezione at the Berlin Philharmonic. 

Of the seventeen operas Handel wrote to star the Italian castrato Senesino, Giulio Cesare in Egitto is the most popular, and the one performed most often. It is a dramma per musica filled with ironic hints, and based on power and sex intrigues in ancient Rome. The 38-year-old Handel wrote it in England when his imported Italian-style operas started to fall out of favour.