John Holiday, an up-and-coming countertenor with an appealing, soprano-like timbre, sings the title role of Handel’s “Xerxes,” giving audiences the chance to hear his rendition of one of the most ...

The Washington National Opera continued another long-standing holiday tradition at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater on Tuesday night, as the young countertenor Key’mon Murrah accepted this year’s ...

Monumentalised by the Victorians as Handel’s Largo, Ombra mai fu is the opening number in his opera Serse, and for all its ironic touches — the object of Xerxes’ veneration is a plane tree — has to be ...