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Arts: How Handel got his groove back Composers' reputations rise and fall, but few have enjoyed such a boom as that of George Frideric Handel. Audiences now flock to operas thought unstageable 20 years ago.
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It is spring, or as near as dammit, despite floods in Yorkshire
and frosts everywhere else, and here comes another London Handel
Festival. The Programme of oratorio, cantatas and concertos at St
George's Hanover Square, where the composer was once churchwarden, is
balanced by performances at the Royal College of Music's Britten
Theatre of his rarely-heard opera, Lotario.
A tale of dynastic skulduggery in early medieval Italy, it
includes a stupendous coup de theatre in which the schemi...
