EditorialAndrew Megill leads the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street in Handel?s ?Messiah? at the newly restored Trinity Church Wall Street in New York, Dec. 9, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialThe conductor Rapha?l Pichon rehearsing “The Marriage of Figaro” with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Nov. 14, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Western Washington University campus, which hosts a world-class outdoor sculpture collection, including this 27-foot-tall steel creation, “For Handel,” by Mark di Suvero, in Bellingham, Wash., June 19, 2022. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)
EditorialElza van den Heever, left, and Iestyn Davies in the opera “Rodelinda,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 8, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialMatthew McLaughlin, left, and Laurel Lynch, of the Mark Morris Dance Group, in “Water” at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, Sept. 25, 2021. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialJoyce DiDonato in rehearsals for the Metropolitan Opera's staging of "Agrippina'" in New York, Jan. 22, 2020. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
EditorialFurniture, Bohemian knickknacks and piles of vintage vinyl appear to be the actual artifacts, but almost all items are replicas at the Handel & Hendrix museum in London on April 22, 2019. (Andy Haslam/The New York Times)