This is the story of a love affair with the music of George Frederic Handel.
It records a half-century of pursuing performances across Europe in a spirit of pure hedonism .... including 70 different baroque operas and 35 oratorios in 75 cities.
The great Handel Festivals in Gšttingen, Halle, Karlsuhe and London are visited as are the major opera houses and concert halls plus civic theatres, large, fringe and digital.
Handel is placed in his baroque context by accounts of performances of opera and music by his contemporaries.
This not a critical work. The author loves his subject much too much for tha