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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The San Francisco Opera's latest foray into the challenging and musically rich world of Baroque opera opened last week with George Frideric Handel's Partenope. The well-cast, attractive, and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Handel's Partenope is one of his least often performed operas, but superb singing at the London Coliseum shows how glorious the music truly is. Thanks to excellent singing from a very talented small ...