Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...

But as a fully-staged piece, as The Grange Festival’s director Michael Chance reminded us after Saturday’s performance, Handel’s story of the fall of Babylon, the triumph of the Persian leader Cyrus, ...

After a deeply moving, finely sung Le nozze di Figaro and a gloriously staged, superbly cast Falstaff, this production of one of Handel’s finest oratorios confirms The Grange Festival as the star of ...

Opera: Puccini’s La Boheme and Handel’s Belshazzar THE LAST place you would expect to find opera is at the Cock Tavern, a boozer in Kilburn High Road, north London.

When almost 6,000 people in central London settle down to hear an obscure, three-hour baroque oratorio, it can only mean two things: that the Proms are in full swing and that the composer is Handel.