Handel’s cantata Apollo & Dafne was written in Venice when he was just 24 years old. It tells the story of Apollo, who in his vanity suggests that even Cupid’s bow is no match for his own. Challenging ...

George Frideric Handel wrote the cantata Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122 and the oratorio The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 around 40 years apart in 1709-10 and 1750 respectively. In this London Handel Festival ...

Once again the restless Los Angeles Philharmonic has been too ambitious to stick with the traditional single-program model for its four-concert subscription series. What was different this past ...