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 ...

The tenor sings the title role and also conducts in this new recording that interest and spark but eccentricities; instrumentalists I Gemelli are very fine A decade ago, new recordings of the earliest ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. On the death, drama, and despair front, Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo has a story that hangs with ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: MAHLER'S FIRST BY HEART, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: RACHMANINOV’S ‘PAGANINI’ VARIATIONS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: ROSSINI'S 'STABAT MATER', Royal Albert ...

This collaboration between the Roundhouse and the Royal Opera House is full of simple and superbly effective touches, with a strong cast of soloists and vivid playing from the Early Opera Company The ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017 the trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas was toured on both sides of the Atlantic by John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. Between June 16 and 21 each opera was performed twice at ...

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 ...