George Freideric Handel

We’re off to the Paris Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (7/5 3:00 p.m.) and a production of one of Handel’s Italian operas “Ariodante” from September of 2025. The source material for “Ariodante” has been used in well over 70 different projects. In the past, we heard one treatment by Giovanni Simone Mayr on the Sunday Opera in his opera “Ginevra di Scozia.” “Ariodante” is a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption, and it explores themes of jealousy, deception, and the triumph of good over evil.

Today's piece comes form the Music of the Baroque and features Handel's oratorio about the biblical general "Jephtha" who leads the Israelites to freedom from the Ammonites, but promises a sacrifice to God of the first living creature he sees if he's victorious, Unfortunately, that turns out to be his loving daughter Iphis who happily runs out to greet her father as soon as she sees him.

We’ll continue with the music of Handel and the performance of Music of the Baroque on this week’s Sunday Opera (10/27 3:00 p.m.) with Handel’s 1739…

We begin a series of three works by George Frideric Handel on this week’s Sunday Opera (10/20 3:00 p.m.) with his oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” from Music…