George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer ... English audiences took to his 1711 opera Rinaldo, and several years later Handel moved to England permanently. He impressed ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: ...

A humiliated singer redeemed her reputation in the debut of ‘Messiah,’ which Handel originally keyed to Easter.