Handel and Haydn Society Presents Handel Jephtha, conducted by Artistic Director Harry Christophers, in celebration of the 2015 Bicentennial. The piece premiered in the US by H&H in 1855. Performances ...

Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts Jephtha is Handel ...

Fans of Handel’s music tend to be well-served in Boston over the course of a typical season, but this spring brings an unprecedented opportunity to experience live performances, within the span of a ...

correctionA music review in the May 8 Style section stated that the Maryland Handel Festival had never performed Handel's "Hercules." In fact it was performed at the festival in 1992. (Published ...

The story of Jephtha is, as the Handel scholar Ruth Smith points out, taken from the oldest account of the fight for possession of land in the Middle East. While that adds more than a frisson in the ...

‘Gloomy’. That’s the word. The story of Jephtha in the Book of Judges isn’t a barrel of laughs. Pushed into leading the Israelites in battle against the Ammonites, Jephtha makes a bargain: Yahweh will ...

The State of Israel is at war with its neighbours. No, this is not the World News but a Biblical story that forms the plot of Handel's Jephtha. This is rarely seen, partly because it was not ...

Handel’s final original oratorio Jephtha (1752) has not received as many good recordings as it deserves, but unfortunately this live performance from Dresden’s famous Frauenkirche does not change this ...

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