OPERA

Handel: Serse

SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2022
2:00 PM

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$19-$125
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Serse — an oddly funny opera about Xerxes, of all people — may not be Handel’s very greatest opera. But its opening aria, “Ombra Mai Fu”, is one of the most deservedly famous — and completely indelible — things in all of Western music. (And things stay pretty great from there.) Harry Bicket’s annual concert performances of Handel operas with his English Concert are reliable highlights of the New York musical year — and he’s assembled his usual sterling roster of singers you want to hear (Emily D’Angelo IS Serse).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another opportunity to go to the superb Italian café Lodi.