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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...

In just its fourth season last year, American Baroque Opera faced the pandemic challenges like any other arts organization. But instead of just focusing on getting through it, founders and husbands ...

The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado has presented a wide-ranging mix of instrumental and vocal works during its four-year history, but it has never ventured into opera. Until now. This weekend, ...

American Baroque Opera Company's Aztec characters in Antonio Vivaldi's opera Montezuma were costumed in flamboyant quasi-native attire designed by Arturo Hernandez. Karen Almond / American Baroque ...

As the composer of Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, George Frideric Handel is a giant of the classical music world. But he also wrote operas. In the early 1700s, London was crazy for ...

Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.

As with orchestras and chamber music series, the coronavirus pandemic has forced baroque-music organizations to rethink how, what and where they perform. All three major baroque-music groups in the ...

With a voice of angelic purity, halo of frizzy hair and girlish sweet smile, Emma Kirkby has been a kind of fairy princess of the early music movement since she first dropped in on it in the early ...

It was a five-hour spectacular, and London had never seen anything like it. Right there on stage, swans were transformed into fairies, a bridge dissolved, Phoebus galloped through the clouds in a ...