On Saturday, December 27 at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's special compilation broadcast of music by George Frideric ...

“Rinaldo” will be the first Minnesota Production in its new Luminary Arts Center in the North Loop, which had its grand opening earlier this fall and has hosted other rental productions. Part of the ...

Glimmerglass Opera’s production of Handel’s “Rinaldo,” as seen on Monday, is unlike any Baroque opera audiences might hope to see. Written in 1711 with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, the story includes ...

George Frideric Handel was the baroque era's master of the earworm. Take as evidence Minnesota Opera's new production of his opera, "Rinaldo." It's fairly bursting with lovely laments of love and ...

Hill wrote the outline of a story – Rinaldo, based on characters from Torquato Tasso’s Crusader epic, Gerusalemme Liberata – that was then adapted into an Italian-language libretto. Handel apparently ...

A frankly daft Crusading plot is reworked as the cartoonish fantasies of a schoolboy. Bullied by his classmates and bored of his history lesson, he recasts the Crusades with himself as warrior-hero ...