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The new season opens with Music of the Baroques first performance in over three decades of Handels final oratorio. Working furiously while his eyesight was failing, Handel tells the story of Jephtha, ...

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 ...

Jephtha, the last and perhaps the greatest of Handel's biblical oratorios, treats that familiar mythological story about the parent required to sacrifice his child: Jephtha, appointed Israelite ...

The Handel and Haydn Society, which brought Handel’s last oratorio “Jephtha” to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night, is not your grandfather’s H&H.; Not your great-grandfather’s, your ...

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 ...

Composed in 1751, George Frideric Handel’s Jephtha is based on the story from Judges XI and George Buchanan’s 1554 play Jephthes, sive Votum. It is recognised as his final oratorio, since The Triumph ...

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 ...