There’s a flamboyance and excess to period band La Nuova Musica’s style that’s all their own. Director David Bates favours broad dynamic contrasts, extrovert musical drama and lashings of ...

The most striking feature of this production of Handel’s Orlando is the superb – arguably definitive – musical performance. If anybody wants to know how to perform Handel with authenticity as well as ...

Yet this feast of gorgeous music forever gestured towards the drama that its limited format – despite some attempts at action and business among the singers – could never deliver. So frustration ...

Even before Tuesday’s concert performance of Handel’s opera “Orlando” began, it was clear that this would be an unusual night in Ozawa Hall. Members of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque ...