A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe “The Comet/Poppea” radically pares ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. Killer Queen Opera's production of L'Orfeo follows Orpheus ...

Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San ...

ROMA (ITALPRESS) – A settembre la programmazione di Mezzo (al numero 49 della piattaforma satellitare gratuita tivusat) ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: MAHLER'S FIRST BY HEART, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: RACHMANINOV’S ‘PAGANINI’ VARIATIONS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: ROSSINI'S 'STABAT MATER', Royal Albert ...

In Zurich, conductor Nikolas Harnoncourt realizes his vision of reviving the work of opera pioneer Claudio Monteverdi using historical performance practices, brilliantly staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ...

For centuries, opera was not only the most prestigious form of Western music but also the most political. Cohen observes that the invention of opera coincided with the emergence of the modern ...

Jasdeep Singh Degun’s thrilling reimagining of Monteverdi’s beautiful baroque masterpiece won huge acclaim when it was first performed by Opera North in 2022, winning multiple awards, including ...

It wasn’t so long ago that Claudio Monteverdi’s three surviving operas were considered dusty relics, best left in the library or only studied in graduate-school music courses. Now, thanks to the ...

Review: The return of Ulysses, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney. Claudio Monteverdi entered the 73rd year of his life when he composed his opera, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ...