August 2005) ... this long-term Handelian and one-time Berkeley prof has discovered the opera's psychological core and unleashed its power.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Buffo in the Handelian manner — that is as nearly so as we could make it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Butler: A Sketch] Reference

Ruth Ann Swenson, as the princess Ariodante loves and almost loses, was a delicious and equally skillful Handelian.    From Wordnik.com.  [How SFO Closed Its Season] Reference

Mr. Daniels is the quintessential exponent of Handelian style, while Mr. Domingo is still firmly rooted in the 19th-century territory of most of his repertoire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniels and Domingo] Reference

Narcissus: a Cantata in the Handelian form, words and music by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

I used to like the idea that the NYCO was NY's Handelian venue.    From Wordnik.com.  [parterre box] Reference

How Miltonic, not to say Handelian, is this attitude towards the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino] Reference

Hard to believe that anything Handelian has been left unrecorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

If you're a confirmed Handelian with your own score of "Messiah," be sure to bring it with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

In "Lucy's Aria," a mock Handelian piece, Biedel finds resources she's not displayed heretofore.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

If you’re a confirmed Handelian with your own score of “Messiah,” be sure to bring it with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

The other day my local bookshop was running just such a Handelian compilation, treating browsers to a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

She could think of no tunes but dances -- andantes turned scherzi, the Handelian largo became a Castilian tango.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

With these words, an umbrella, and a chair held before him like a violoncello, Mr. Abbott gave a truly Handelian performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910] Reference

But when speaking of the rendition of Handelian arias, he evidently uses the term vibrato in the same sense as Sieber does tremolando.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixty Years of California Song] Reference

A few moments later some simple chords, and the sound of a rather obvious sequence, followed by intensely Handelian runs, announced that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green Carnation] Reference

There is a Handelian dignity without any bow-wow or stiffness, and the freshness and freedom are of a kind that Handel never attained to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purcell] Reference

Belshazzar with libretto by Charles Jennens was brought to vivid and entertaining life by the veteran Handelian maestro, Sir Charles Mackerras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

Matthew Halls leads the King's Consort in a judicious and well-paced romp through the music, and displays a fine sense of Handelian singing style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Handelian opera has often been described as a concert in costume, and Dr. Burney, writing as late as 1789, both admits this description and defends it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handel] Reference

The Jubilate is almost as fine; but we must take both, not as premature endeavours to work Handelian wonders, but as the full realisations of a very different ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purcell]

"Orfeo ed Euridice," a spare, compact, and firmly lyrical work from the early Classical era that came as a correction after several decades of florid, Handelian entertainments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

Donizetti melodramas, Handelian romances, French operettas, German fairy tales - alongside visits from the best small touring companies in interesting repertory both modern and ancient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Yet Handel wrote fashionable music, and so much other of the music of that epoch is Handelian that it is often difficult to be sure where George Frederick left off and somebody else began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

In the autumn of 1748 a company of Italian comic-opera singers came over to London; they brought an entirely new type of entertainment, and after their success Handelian opera was buried for ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handel] Reference

DiDonato slays the Handelian dragon with all the weapons at her disposal, a powerful, evenly balanced voice that refuses to distort in the higher registers while offering a graceful pianissimo in the lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

But Thursday's spotty and intermittently awkward rendition of "Orlando" in Herbst Theatre was certainly well off the glorious pace established over the group's nearly three decades of Handelian performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

The coloratura writing reflects not only the Handelian opera influence, but it moves with sweeping vitality to heights rarely matched by the composer himself, unless we include the instrumental writing from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Rodelinda herself is one of Handelian opera's greatest creations, not only a paradigm of the enduringly faithful wife, but a brave, passionate woman also capable of showing guile when defending those she loves.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

His secret is the Handelian secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference

The Handelian trademark was speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference