In 1724, George Frideric Handel brought the timeless love story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life in music through his exquisite opera Giulio Cesare. In honor of this dramatic work's 300th ...
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 ...
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 ...
With its ravishing June production of Agostino Steffani’s 1688 opera, Niobe, Queen of Thebes, the Boston Early Music Festival has confirmed its unique and invaluable role within the early music ...
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 ...
Every time a Handel opera gets put on, it seems, people talk about a Baroque revival. Forget that it’s been Every time a Handel opera gets put on, it seems, people talk about a Baroque revival. Forget ...
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 ...
Major orchestras don’t play a lot of Baroque music these days, but don’t tell that to Harry Bicket. Mr. Bicket, most recently of the Los Angeles Opera, has made his career conducting mainly Baroque ...
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