Why the L.A. Phil’s Handel festival was downright revelatory
In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion). An opera disguised as an oratorio to get around the church’s ban on profane opera, the impolitic work about past and present is … Read more