The conundrum of five women, three of them men, is the same as it was in the last Serse I witnessed, in the more intimate ...

This historical revival of Handel's Serse particularly emphasises the humorous aspects of the opera, thereby creating a wonderfully entertaining spectacle from start to finish. Serse is an unusual ...

This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done With its airy spaces and lively acoustic, James Gibbs’s 1720s church at ...

An opera that starts with a monarch’s love song to a tree might suggest something Monty Python-esque, but it makes perfect sense (well, maybe not quite perfect) in Handel’s Serse, which combines ...

This 1738 opera shows the composer at his most mischievous – and this performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields was splendidly done Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and ...