Handel is now best known for his mighty oratorios. ‘Tis the season for Messiah. But he was late to that game, deep as he was into Italian opera, the blockbuster genre of the 18 th century and the one ...

The opera is one of many that Handel wrote as part of London’s craze for the Italian opera seria form – which featured multiple arias for its virtuoso singers – and began when he himself composed ...

The Death of Julius Caesar...What does the saying "Beware the Ides of March!" mean? It refers to the day - March 15, 44 BCE - on which Gaius Julius Caesar, a one-time dictator of ancient Rome, was ...

The epic Baroque opera about the love story which shaped empires! George Frideric Handel’s opera “Giulio Cesare” (Italian for Julius Caesar) set London afire with its passionate music in 1723. In 2026 ...

The making of a coin is like the making of a successful political campaign: The artist must clarify and concentrate a big idea into a symbol or slogan, so simple and telling that even the distracted ...

Amid St. Patrick's Day celebrations and the highly anticipated start of spring, March also features a more ominous day that comes coupled with a decades-old warning rooted in literature: "Beware the ...

What makes a man truly great? As President Donald Trump celebrates the ouster of dictators in Iran and Venezuela, and jokes about running for a third term in 2028, I can’t help but think of the two ...

Despite Julius Caesar having spared his life, Marcus Junius Brutus murdered him. In Caesar’s final moments, surrounded by conspirators, there was no more painful stab wound than that inflicted by ...

Long before the Industrial Revolution that brought about so much amazing modern technology, humans relied on the strength and power of many different animals. One of the most iconic animals that ...

Oscar-winning director Bille August, who recently scored a global hit with TV series “The Count of Monte Cristo,” is set for another high-end period show that this time will hark back to Ancient Rome ...

Editor's note: Follow USA women's hockey live score updates from 2026 Winter Olympics. MILAN — U.S. goalkeeper Aerin Frankel is known as the "Green Monster," nicknamed after the iconic left field wall ...

Spartacus: House of Ashur: (L-R) Jaime Slater (“Cornelia”) and Jackson Gallagher (“Caesar”)/Credit: STARZ *The season finale of “Spartacus: House of Ashur” premiered on Friday, February 6, delivering ...