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 Monteverdi Choir will join the English Baroque Soloists and Sir John Eliot Gardiner (far right) for a performance of Claudio Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium ...

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 ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. KQO is a NYC-based, female-led arts organization dedicated to ...

Lamento d'Arianna, or Ariadne's Lament, is the only surviving section of Claudio Monteverdi's second opera, L'Arianna. The full eight scene libretto written by Ottavio Rinuccini remains, but all of ...

All the good people die, and the evildoers triumph. That’s the situation in “The Coronation of Poppea” (“L’incoronatione de Poppea”), a Claudio Monteverdi opera in which the Emperor Nero and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

For centuries, opera was not only the most prestigious form of Western music but also the most political. Cohen observes that the invention of opera coincided with the emergence of the modern ...