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Portland Baroque Orchestra presents the North American premiere of a newly-devised opera pasticcio by Stephen Pettitt (libretto) and Julian Perkins (musical arrangements and recitatives): Dinner with Handel. A reimagined delicacy that dares to ask, ‘‘what would dinner with Handel really be like?’’ Set in Handel’s London home, this chamber opera revolves around an uncomfortably intimate surprise dinner...

Richard Wigmore explores Handel’s work through the lens of six pivotal years in his life, relating to both his music and his biography

Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?

Salut! Baroque's Sally Melhuish explains how competition and rivalry became a catalyst for creativity in English music.

In this blog, Rare Books and Music Curator Dr Susannah Helman explores the Library’s holdings of what has become a classic Christmas work, and early editions of other works by the German-born English composer George Frideric Handel (1685–1759).