Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts Jephtha is Handel ...

Handel’s music promises less psychological meat on the bone for him to chew on than his previous outing as Peter Grimes. But Clayton’s Jephtha, Jennifer France ’s velvet voiced Iphis, and the rest of ...

Handel and Haydn Society Presents Handel Jephtha, conducted by Artistic Director Harry Christophers, in celebration of the 2015 Bicentennial. The piece premiered in the US by H&H in 1855. Performances ...

Fans of Handel’s music tend to be well-served in Boston over the course of a typical season, but this spring brings an unprecedented opportunity to experience live performances, within the span of a ...

‘Gloomy’. That’s the word. The story of Jephtha in the Book of Judges isn’t a barrel of laughs. Pushed into leading the Israelites in battle against the Ammonites, Jephtha makes a bargain: Yahweh will ...

The State of Israel is at war with its neighbours. No, this is not the World News but a Biblical story that forms the plot of Handel's Jephtha. This is rarely seen, partly because it was not ...

The story of Jephtha is, as the Handel scholar Ruth Smith points out, taken from the oldest account of the fight for possession of land in the Middle East. While that adds more than a frisson in the ...

Handel's dark masterpiece was delivered with taut conducting, blazing conviction in the choruses and wonderful solo singing Jephtha, Handel's last oratorio, is his darkest, most troubling masterpiece.

The work was never meant to be staged, but Oliver Mears’s excellently sung production for the Royal Opera makes a strong case for doing so Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

Composed in 1751, George Frideric Handel’s Jephtha is based on the story from Judges XI and George Buchanan’s 1554 play Jephthes, sive Votum. It is recognised as his final oratorio, since The Triumph ...