Choreographer Mark Morris’s signature work comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Morris garnered international fame for this piece, set to George Frideric Handel’s ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Great Frost of 1740, while the Thames froze, Handel was not idle. As though to shut the winter out ...
I imagine a dinner party with blind Milton, fat Handel and wicked Morris as a riotous and highly disputatious evening ending in sworn blood-brotherhood. Story is there none: more a stream of arias by ...
Written in 1740, when interest in his operas was waning and he was beginning to embrace other forms far more, Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato defies simple categorisation. It could ...
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