It wasn't Theodora, but the Carnegie Hall audience, who went wild on Sunday at the performance by the English Concert of Handel's rarely heard THEODORA. With the modern rebirth of interest in ...

A rehearsal room in Opera Australia's Surry Hills headquarters. Bass-baritone Andrew Collis is standing on a table glowering at his castmates. He has a prop gun in his hand. He looks threatening. But ...

Theodora had its first performance at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden – predecessor of the Royal Opera House – in 1750. As an oratorio, it was presented in concert with no staging: Handel could never ...

Katie Mitchell’s modern-day staging of Handel’s oratorio is probing but problematic. The cast, however, is one of the finest ever assembled for the work Handel considered Theodora the greatest of his ...

Handel’s historical oratorio Theodora is one of his most sublime works. And the fact that Katie Mitchell’s new production is brandished as state-of-the-art feminism, boasting two top-of-the-range pole ...

Katie Mitchell’s new production of Handel’s Theodora comes bristling with warnings of sexual violence and exploitation. It was also recently revealed that the production team had availed themselves of ...

Katie Mitchell's staging of Handel's great oratorio relocates it from the fourth-century to a bleak modern embassy – with remarkable results Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

The brave Christian noblewoman Theodora is arrested and thrown into prison because she refuses to honour the Emperor, and threatened with a fate worse than death – as a sex-worker for the President ...

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work, performed by a committed cast, allows Handel’s genius to shine through The wry ...