Through Monteverdi’s later works, such as the scena Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Battle of Tancred and Clorinda), and his final surviving opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea (The ...

Mantua's court hosts Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, the earliest opera still performed today. Boasting a large orchestra it is one of the earliest to specify instrumentation, including three organs, ...

Only three of a dozen or so operas written by Claudio Monteverdi survive in enough of a form to perform. Now, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in the midst of presenting these three as a cycle.

The characters in Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Coronation of Poppea” are not content to rest on their laurels. In fact, no one in this inspired-by-true-events tale of the rise of Ancient Roman ...

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 ...

Claudio Monteverdi was a musical revolutionary. Over the course of music’s history, few composers have had a more radical impact on their art than the Italian, whose 450th birthday will be celebrated ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. For example, there is cave art as old as 30,000 years -- the earliest paintings ever ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

triple bill of one-acts, which opens Friday, March 26, at the Newmark Theatre, might put a tune in your head, just not one from any of the operas. Instead, you'll be thinking of that classic from ...

Through Monteverdi’s later works, such as the scena Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Battle of Tancred and Clorinda), and his final surviving opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea (The ...