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 ...

Following a string of triumphant performances in music capitals across Europe, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists take their seven-month "Monteverdi 450" ...

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 ...

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 ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

The little OPERA theatre of ny will present a livestream concert of Monteverdi & Other Treasures from the Seicento on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm ET. The production will offer an optional immersive ...

Three of the earliest operas to survive from the 17th century remain three of the best: Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” (Orpheus), “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” (The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland) and ...

Ever since its roots in the 17th century, opera has been concerned with the interrelation of love and politics, balancing the unswayable force of one and the power plays of the other. Few early works ...

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 ...

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 ...