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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London

Audience member banned from Royal Opera House after he loudly booed child singer during aria

Royal Ballet & Opera

Organist, Anna Lapwood, performs the Handel aria with soprano, and security guard, Marcella

Opera-singing security guard joins organist in moving Queen Elizabeth II tribute at London station

Best classical music pieces for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

15 of the best classical music pieces for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

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Christmas shoppers stunned as choir bursts into Handel ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus in food court

Christmas shoppers stunned as choir bursts into Handel ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus in food court

What are the lyrics to the Christmas hymn ‘Joy to the World’?

What are the lyrics to ‘Joy to the World’, who composed the carol and what does it mean?

Christmas

Royal Academy of Music to ‘decolonise’ collection as composer linked to slave trade

Royal Academy of Music to ‘decolonise' collection as composer linked to slave trade

Organist accidentally hits ‘transpose’ during Handel’s Messiah, and produces this spectacular fail

Organist accidentally hits ‘transpose’ during Handel’s Messiah, and produces this spectacular fail

Joy to the World

Musicians are tearing apart this ‘Joy to the World’ cake with confusing notation

Christmas

Eternal Source of Light Divine

Soprano and saxophonist’s rendition of ‘Eternal Source of Light Divine’ will tingle your spine

Handel's Messiah disaster

The time a small church performed a dramatic Handel’s ‘Messiah’, and it went badly wrong

Forte Handbell Quartet

A completely mad handbell arrangement of The Hallelujah Chorus

Tilda Swinton has directed a Baroque music video starring her DOGS

Tilda Swinton has directed a Baroque music video starring her DOGS

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Smiling composers

We tweaked famous composer portraits so they’re all smiling

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Mezzo Daniela Mack Handel runs

Mezzo sings a gigantic 72-note Handel phrase **in one breath**

Handel shred

This Handel shred is the most majestic piece of classical humour

Football and opera merge thanks to Phil Jones

Someone has set Phil Jones gurning to a Handel aria - and it’s the only thing you need to see today

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Handel organ fail

Some absolute legend has transcribed the amazing musical Handel organ fail

Olivia Colman and Emma Stone in The Favourite

The Favourite soundtrack: trailer music, tracklisting and credits

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