Theodora review – a searing performance of Handel’s own favourite oratorio

Period music powerhouse Arcangelo gave the alternately poignant and earth-quaking arias the deluxe treatment in this unstaged yet dramatic concert performance

The week in classical: In the Realms of Sorrow; Alexander’s Feast; Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Bloch – review

The raw, ravishing power of four solo cantatas is taken to the next level at the London Handel festival, while young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason works overtime

The English Concert/Bicket review – Handel of grace and elan as Bicket takes us back to 1749 London

Recreation of the composer’s benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital was beautifully delivered

Alcina review – witty and vibrant staging full of beastly style

With Antony McDonald’s colourful designs, Richard Jones’s lively production is aimed as much at the eye as at the ear, and Lisette Oropesa is perfect in the title role

Amadigi review – winning recording should gain Handel’s romantic tale new fans

There are glorious and nuanced performances in a new recording of this lesser-known Handel opera, courtesy of Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company

Looking West/Philharmonia Baroque review – soaring ambition and vividly projected Handel

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

Alcina review – Handel’s enchanting opera glitters with retro glamour

Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis

Tamerlano review – Handel’s sadistic psychopath gains deadly charisma in stylish update

Two superb countertenors enact the love-hate relationship between the emperor and his rival in Daniel Slater’s superbly acted and sung production

Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

The London Handel festival takes the composer’s music into spaces that wouldn’t normally hear it – with mixed results

Amadigi review – small-scale Handel with yoga and walls of fire

The irrationalities of desire among a quartet of lovers are the focus of Handel’s opera in James Conway’s lively and fluent new production

Ariodante review – Paula Murrihy dazzles in Handel’s dark drama

In a belated homecoming to Covent Garden, Handel’s gripping opera is played beautifully and sung superbly by a fine cast

4/4 review – a powerhouse of a programme from the Royal Opera

A quartet of staged vocal works, including terrific renditions of Handel’s Apollo e Dafne and Britten’s Phaedra, welcomes back live audiences

Susanna review – young artists shine in cluttered Handel staging

Handel’s take on the biblical story of Susanna is well played and well sung in this new production by Isabelle Kettle, though less would have been more

Prom 55: Jephtha review – vivid outing for Handel’s last oratorio

Richard Egarr balanced intensity with reflection, despite cuts to the score, and Allan Clayton was effortless in the title role

Belshazzar review – Murray shines as Handel’s vainglorious hero

Daniel Slater’s lively staging of the 1744 oratorio is sung with outstanding commitment and attention to detail, with Robert Murray an exceptional lead