It has never been easy to come to terms with prolific artists. The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. He didn’t. He could always surprise and delight, just like the recent ...
Call it a musical homecoming more than 275 years in the making. Antonio Vivaldi’s “Motezuma,” first performed in 1733 in Venice, was long considered a lost opera, its score having vanished, like so ...
For some classical music lovers, nothing can compare to a well-executed baroque opera, with the machine of the orchestra clicking along and the singers filigreeing their da capo ornaments on top. It’s ...
On Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 29, the Yale Baroque Opera Project, or YBOP, will present its 15th annual production, Luigi Rossi’s 1647 opera “Orfeo.” The performances will take place at the ...
Centuries after the era of its birth, baroque music remains pretty popular through the works of composers like Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. But baroque operas? Less so. Even big opera companies don’t ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Chicago early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will mark its pandemic-delayed ...
Olympic Games come with sideshows. Most of them, soon eclipsed by the athletic events, fall into the category of flash and dash. But we'll always have Paris. While details about the opening and ...