07 Jan 2009

I listened to every Handel opera - and lived

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5419433.ece

Emma Pomfret [Times Online, 31 December 2008]

This was the Christmas that Handel stole. The year my Advent candle became “the Handel candle”, burning down the days of an epic musical challenge: to listen to all of George Frideric Handel’s 42 operas. In three weeks. Was it humanly possible? Or would it be the nightmare before, during and after Christmas?