SEATTLE – Speight Jenkins is a man who hears voices. The general director of Seattle Opera is regarded for his ability to uncover opera talent, and when he encounters a great singer, he figures out ...

The New Israeli Opera returns to Acre for the fourth time this August with Handel’s “Julius Caesar in Egypt,” performed as part of the city’s annual summer opera festival. A joint venture between the ...

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Lou Harrison, the beloved California composer, would have turned 100 this spring, and arguably the most important centenary event will come Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall with a sold-out staged ...

Season opening show marks a return to indoor productions. After an intense battle with a bitter rival during the Roman civil war, Julius Caesar moves toward Egypt with his head held high but more than ...

The sloe-eyed beauty who could charm the conqueror into giving her a kingdom—Cleopatra! It’s a tale that has long enthralled Western art and literature, involving as it does a powerful and exotic ...

In 1599, William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar became one of the Bard’s first works to be performed at London’s Globe Theatre. About two hundred years later, what would come to be known ...

Handel's Julius Caesar is not an easy opera to stage. It is almost a chamber piece, with the singers given a succession of wonderful solos with little interaction between them and remarkably few duets ...

Togas are out and glam is in with this Julius Caesar. Set on a 1930s movie soundstage in the enchanted golden age of Hollywood, this Baroque opera comes to life as a big movie musical complete with an ...

English National Opera's production of Handel's Julius Caesar at London's Coliseum will probably be remembered as 'the one with the giraffe', writes Paul Gent. Paul Gent 02 October 2012 • 6:18pm Anna ...