Ensemble Pygmalion's performances of Monteverdi's Vespers and the opera Orfeo were baroque masterpieces for a neo-baroque age ...
L’Harmonie des saisons, an early-music ensemble based in Granby, Québec, has sold out all seven of its Burlington concerts since its music director, Eric Milnes, first brought the lively and highly ...
For most Georgian concertgoers, the name Antonio Vivaldi evokes a familiar image: bright violin concertos, rhythmic sunshine, the endlessly recycled ...
A baroque-style opera about a lovelorn sorceress, staged in a local vintage shop—that's Alcina, a collaboration between Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Early Music Now. Incredibly intrigued by this ...
The IU Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater has now demonstrated its excellence in baroque opera with a stunning production of “Alcina,” which premiered Feb. 7-8. George Frideric Handel’s ...
It is Handel time at the Lobero Theatre again this weekend, as OSB stages Caesar and Cleopatra, an opera also known as Julius Caesar in Egypt or simply Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare), as a follow-up to ...
The Old World similarities between New Orleans and Venice, Italy, have sparked a new chamber music ensemble in the Crescent City. The Louisiana Baroque Chamber Orchestra made its debut at the New ...
Opera has occupied a central place in Boston Baroque’s repertoire for most of its 52-year history, but for much of that timespan, those operas were performed in concert, or with minimal stagecraft.
This post was updated Nov. 6 at 10:34 p.m. “Rodrigo” marries elements of past and present pop culture into a spectacle of virtuosity and ambition. On the surface, the 1707 opera “Rodrigo” – written by ...
As a boy who played piano seriously and spoke Italian, Francesco Milioto was almost destined for opera. But conducting? For the Florentine Opera's music director, that journey began serendipitously.
Continuing the festival’s commitment to bringing its audience gems from the German Baroque, BEMF also revived its 2021 Telemann double-bill consisting of the late dramatic solo cantata Ino paired with ...