Arcadia, that mythical realm where shepherds and nymphs sport the days away, is a tricky place from a dramatic standpoint. Life there is an abstract pageant, in which nothing much happens except ...

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LENOX — Dashon Burton raged into Arcadia at the start of Act 2 as the monstrous Polyphemus, exploding onto the Seiji Ozawa Hall stage and lifting the rest of an otherwise uneven “Acis and Galatea” ...

A phenomenally endearing production, Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and ...

Last fall the Chicago Opera Theater scored a critical and box-office success with a stylish staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, so it’s wrapping up this season with a revival of another Baroque opera, ...

BERKELEY — Acis, a shepherd, and Galatea, a nymph, are in love. The jealous giant Polyphemus brains Acis. Galatea uses her divine powers to restore her slain swain into a fountain, gently purring ...

CAMBRIDGE — At its debut in 1718, Handel’s pastoral oratorio “Acis and Galatea” had a vocal cast of five and an instrumental complement that might have been as small as seven. The current fully staged ...

Jealousy and passion cause a monstrous beast to destroy a great romance is the same basic storyline of the two operas offered by the Central City Opera on July 26. Apart from this, these two ...

Gap ads of recent vintage seem to have been among the inspirations for Mark Lamos' playful and poignant new production of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" at City Opera. Everyone's in khaki for this ...