In San Francisco Opera's dashing production of Handel's "Partenope," the heroine is presented not as the Queen of Naples, as she is known in mythology, but as a chic socialite in 1920s Paris. The 1730 ...

San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season continues with George Frideric Handel’s Partenope in director Christopher Alden’s award-winning production. Last seen on the War Memorial Opera House stage in ...

If Flaubert was Madame Bovary, then Handel was Partenope. She is the title character of his 1730 opera, a big hit in its time, but then spurned for supposed tawdriness over the ensuing 250 years.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season will continue June 15 with George ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The course of true love nearly runs amok in “Partenope.” The new San Francisco Opera production of Handel’s opera is a glorious romp through the world of amorous attraction. Women wear ...

Spectacular singing and acrobatics meet to offer unusual entertainment in San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House. It took Handel's 1730 “Partenope” two and a half centuries to be staged in San ...

A posh glam gal with a devoted following has three ardent suitors, but one of them is being pursued, in disguise, by his erstwhile betrothed, who has adopted a bitter male persona to confront him ...

Four suitors for one woman –one is a transvestite in disguise – is the point of departure of one of the most remarkable operas composed by Handel for the audiences of London. With Partenope, the Saxon ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, alluring women who can manipulate men with blissful abandon are much in vogue at Lyric Opera this season. Joining Thais and Violetta is a new player in the seduction game — ...

Female operatic characters are so often victims of murder, consumption, suicide and their own messy emotions. But in Handel’s “Partenope” the women come out on top. Its gender-bending plot and ...

A few years ago in Copenhagen I had a Handel epiphany. After so many bad experiences and near-misses with his operas, his dramatic genius at last dawned on me. That was all thanks to the stunning ...