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Handel's Serse – the Vegas version – in Karlsruhe
The problem with on-stage vulgarity is that, while it might be sophisticated and knowing satire, it ends by being what it is parodying.
Cardillac at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The in-house orchestra played out of its skin under Fabio Luisi.
A stellar cast for a Handelian rarity
Ann Hallenberg shines in an amazing cast in a concert performance of Handel's Ottone in Vienna.
A huge slice of Handel: Tamerlano
Handel's Tartar-Ottoman drama Tamerlano gets a majestically beautiful, if not wildly dramatic, outing at the Barbican with Il Pomo d'Oro.
Handel's Tamerlano at the Concertgebouw
Maxim Emelyanychev conducted the period orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro in Tamerlano at the Concertgebouw, an enjoyable performance of Handel's darkest opera.
Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky make ideal musical bedfellows in Aix
A double bill of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Stravinsky's Perséphone fares strongly in Aix-en-Provence.