A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...a man named George Fredric Handel crafted an opera entitled Rinaldo. A few hundred years later, an opera company that prides itself in bringing a fresh ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Among Handel’s numerous operas, “Rinaldo” ranks rather high. Never mind that the first version in 1711 contains recycled portions of earlier works; the main thing is that it provided the composer’s ...

IRVING - You've got to admire the bravery of the American Baroque Opera Company. Founded just three years ago, the Dallas-based organization is putting on staged productions of challenging repertory ...

This funny, feisty, finely sung version of one of the most difficult to stage of all Handel’s operas, brings Glyndebourne’s exceptional 2014 season to a rousing close. Apparently, Robert Carsen’s ...

In Carsen’s daydream vision, Christian knight Rinaldo finds himself a schoolboy geek, carefully pasting a photo of his beloved Almirena (all specs and plaits) under the lid of his desk. Fantasising ...