Sarah Brailey stands center in a long black gown in front of the orchestra. Conductor Christian Curnyn sits on the left at the piano, back to us.

It’s safe to assume that any Haymarket Opera Company performance will transport you from the blare of contemporary life to the more genteel soundscape of the baroque. Last weekend’s production of George Frideric Handel’s “oratorio” La Resurrezione delivered, with five masters of baroque vocal performance and a 20-piece orchestra of period instruments, conducted by British […]

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