Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem (Recitative: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates (Recit./Accomp.: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Now Tell Me, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If Handel was with us today, he would surely be in his element writing oratorios for the BBC Proms. It is not just ...

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, ...

That Adelaide has only now experienced Belshazzar, Handel's mighty oratorio of the fall of Babylon, is not really surprising. The oratorios of Handel are demanding, and Messiah, the only one in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All kinds of works are turning up in opera houses these days which were not intended to be there. A case in ...

Even among the lofty company of Handel's other oratorios, "Belshazzar" is a stunner. Grandiose, intellectually ambitious and packed with music of astonishing beauty and variety, this is one of the ...

Conductor Graham Abbott’s affinity with the music of Handel was obvious in Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus’s performance of Belshazzar. Abbott, who is widely respected as an interpreter of Handel’s music ...

OF Handel's oratorios, Belshazzar is by no means the most frequently performed yet is by far the most operatic - a work, it has been said, fit to place beside Wagner's Ring in its portrayal of the ...

This year’s festival opened with Handel’s dramatic Oratorio Belshazzar, based on the Old Testament story of Belshazzar’s feast, with singers, orchestra and chorus grouped in front of the altar. Tenor ...

Abbott, who is widely respected as an interpreter of Handel’s music, brought out the various affects of the work wonderfully, with a clear, controlled conducting style. The orchestra played with ...