Internationally renowned director Peter Sellars returns to the Canadian Opera Company this spring with a new company production of Handel's Hercules that propels the Greek myth into the modern day, ...

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CHICAGOCHICAGO — A musical drama that deals with jealousy, despair, madness and death, Handel’s “Hercules” was a resounding flop when first presented in 1745. It took nearly 200 years before this dark ...

The title character arrives onstage late in Handel's opera Hercules. Home from the maelstrom of war, he is provocatively silent, and brings with him a prisoner, the princess Iole. Before the opera is ...

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The Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere of Handel’s “Hercules,” this weekend at the Civic Opera House, brings together some of today’s foremost Handel singers in a boldly updated staging by Peter Sellars ...