This month, Naïve Classiques will release two recordings of music by Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo sung and conducted by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and his GRAMMY nominated ensemble, I Gemelli (October 2) and ...

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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 ...

Juneau’s Orpheus Project, formerly known as Opera to Go, will present its production of “L’Orfeo: The Tale of Orpheus” on February 12, 13 and 14 in Juneau. The production features music direction by ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...

Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera. The composer Nico Muhly, whose new orchestration of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” is premiering at Santa ...

BBC Arts live-streamed Orfeo, the Roundhouse and Royal Opera House’s acclaimed co-production of Claudio Monteverdi’s masterpiece, from the Roundhouse in London on 21 January. It was also available on ...

(L-R) Mariana Flores and Francesca Aspromonte as Eurydice and Music in a performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the BBC Proms on Tuesday 4 August, with the English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir ...

Don’t call it “opera in concert.” That term presupposes an opera that was written for a certain set of conditions and is being performed without them. In the case of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” — which John ...

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 ...