In “Saul,” the magnificent overture to George Frideric Handel’s 1739 oratorio opens on a dim, but not dark, hall. For several minutes, long enough for an exquisite oboe solo and virtuoso passage by ...

Just how much fun can you have at an oratorio about a Old Testament tale of jealousy, madness and death? Well, quite a lot as it happens at the return of Barry Kosky's remarkable production of ...

Barrie Kosky’s darkly subversive take first landed at Glyndebourne 10 years ago – then, as now, it featured Christopher Purves as the belligerent, mentally unstable King Saul and Iestyn Davies as ...