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Alcina review – Handel’s enchanting opera glitters with retro glamour

Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis

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Serse review – new ensemble bring circus, and scissors, to Handel’s Persian opera

Period instrument ensemble Figure’s semi-staging of an abridged version of Serse was full of good ideas and strong singing

The Guardian - UK

Tamerlano review – Handel’s sadistic psychopath gains deadly charisma in stylish update

Two superb countertenors enact the love-hate relationship between the emperor and his rival in Daniel Slater’s superbly acted and sung production

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Simon Preston obituary

Charismatic organist, master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey and conductor who made more than 100 recordings

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Classical home listening: a time capsule from 1953; Caio Fabbricio; Power and Adès on film

A remastered recording of the Queen’s coronation is full of atmosphere; Handel’s ‘capsule opera’ is beautifully performed; and violist Lawrence Power releases a visual album

The Guardian - UK

La Resurrezione review – wonderful singing takes Handel into the ecstatic

The London Handel Orchestra under Laurence Cummings gave a detailed and sensuous account of Handel’s oratorio, with Nardus Williams ravishing as Mary Magdalene

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Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

The London Handel festival takes the composer’s music into spaces that wouldn’t normally hear it – with mixed results

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London Handel Festival opening night celebration review: a rousing, joyful beginning

A programme of Handel’s greatest hits kicked off the festival in his name at his former local church

Evening Standard

Les Arts Florissants/Handel’s L’Allegro at Barbican Hall review - heart-meltingly beautiful

This rendition by the French group confirmed the view of those who rate the piece as one of Handel’s most inspired creations

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Alcina; Bajazet; Pavel Kolesnikov – review

In a tale of two 1735 works, Opera North miss a trick on Handel’s fantasy island while Irish National Opera explore every sizzling note of Vivaldi

The Guardian - UK

Alcina review – Opera North clear clutter but there’s not enough magic on this enchanted isle

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Theodora; OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything – review

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work allows Handel’s genius to shine through

The Guardian - UK

Theodora at Covent Garden: Katie Mitchell’s production is radical but could be tighter, unlike the frocks

A feminist retelling of Handel’s story mostly makes sense, and highlights the clash of belief systems

Evening Standard

Katie Mitchell interview: ‘With the theatrical canon, you have to look the misogyny in the eye’

Her production of Handel’s Theodora will be the first at the Royal Opera House since its 1750 premiere - but not before Katie Mitchell has gone to battle with the libretto’s misogyny

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Classical home listening: young composers and Handel’s power women

The National Youth Choir of Great Britain have been busy commissioning, while Sandrine Piau soars on Enchantresses

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