Is there a sadder tale from Greek mythology than the story of the doomed lovers Acis the shepherd and the sea nymph Galatea? As Ovid relates it in "Metamorphoses," the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed ...
Acis and Galatea, The Sixteen, Christophers, Cadogan Hall review – pocket-sized pastoral pleasures
The 1718 iteration of Handel’s Acis and Galatea dates from exactly the same musical moment as the Four Seasons. In Italy, Handel had first sketched a version of this tale from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, in ...
Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel. But another great musician was also inspired by ...
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