Episodes from Handel Opera Cycle broadcast in 2009

BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Semele, starring soprano Rosemary Joshua.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele.

2/2. Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's late opera Deidamia. With soprano Simone Kermes.

1/2. BBC Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Deidamia.

The complete cycle of Handel operas reaches Imeneo, one of the composer's shortest.

With Penny Gore. BBC Radio 3's series of the complete Handel operas continues with Serse.

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Faramondo.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Berenice, Queen of Egypt from 1994.

2/2. Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's Giustino, featuring Michael Chance.

1/2. Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Giustino.

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Arminio.

Ian Skelly presents a performance of Handel's opera Atalanta.

2/2. Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's Alcina.

1/2. Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Alcina, seen as possibly Handel's greatest opera.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Ariodante.

1/2. Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Ariodante.

2/2. John Shea presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Oreste, starring mezzo-soprano Mary-Ellen Nesi.

1/2. Presented by John Shea. A cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Oreste.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Arianna in Creta.

1/2. The series of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Arianna in Creta.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Orlando.

1/2. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Orlando.

Handel's Fernando, Re di Castiglia, featuring Lawrence Zazzo and Veronica Cangemiunder.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's forgotten masterpiece Ezio.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents of Acts 1 and 2 of Ezio.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Poro - re dell'Indie.

1/2. Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Poro, re dell'Indie.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Partenope.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Partenope.

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Lotario.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Tolomeo.

1/2. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Tolomeo.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Handel's opera Siroe, with Anne Hallenberg and Capella Coloniensis.

2/2. Ian Skelly presents Act 3 of Handel's Riccardo Primo.

1/2. Ian Skelly presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Riccardo Primo.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Admeto.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Admeto. Starring countertenor Rene Jacobs.

2/2. Act 3 of Handel's opera Alessandro.

1/2. Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Alessandro.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Scipione.

1/2. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Scipione.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Rodelinda.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Rodelinda.

Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Tamerlano.

Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Tamerlano.

Act 3 of Handel's most popular opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto.

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Acts 1 and 2.

Louise Fryer presents Handel's tragi-comic opera Flavio.

2/2. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Ottone, re di Germania.

1/2. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 from Handel's opera Ottone.

American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings Elmira in Floridante.

Bononcini's Act 2 and Handel's Act 3 from the collaborative opera Muzio Scevola.

Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's Radamisto.

Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Radamisto.

Ian Skelly presents Handel's Acis and Galatea, in conversation the conductor, John Butt.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Handel's mythical 'opera seria' Amadigi di Gaula.

Penny Gore introduces a performance of Handel's Silla, written in London in 1713.

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's Teseo.

2/2. Presented by Penny Gore. Handel: Il pastor fido (Acts 2 and 3).

1/2. Penny Gore presents a performance of part of Handel's pastoral opera Il pastor fido.

Featuring the final Act of Handel's Rinaldo.

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's Rinaldo, a tale of magic and mystery.

With Act 3 of Handel's Agrippina, part of a complete cycle of the composer's operas.

English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner in Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Agrippina.

1/2. Alan Curtis conducts a performance of the first two acts of Handel's Rodrigo.

2/2. With Jonathan Swain. Handel: Almira, Queen of Castille - Act 3, plus Smetana and Janacek.

1/2. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Handel: Almira, Queen of Castille - Acts 1, 2.