I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

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 ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movements: Ahi, com'a un vago sol Claudio Monteverdi, Composer (La) Venexiana Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movements: Amor, se ...

(L')Orfeo, Movements: Toccata Claudio Monteverdi, Composer (The) King's Consort (L')Orfeo, Movements: Ritornello (harp) Claudio Monteverdi, Composer (The) King's Consort (L')Orfeo, Movements: Dal mio ...

Ars Lyrica Houston will close its season with a WWI-inspired staging of Monteverdi's ORFEO at the Hobby Center, featuring ...

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) may be the greatest composer we rarely hear much of. His music these days is the work of specialists who must learn how to play the instruments he used and study the way ...

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 ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a moment of gentle loveliness. The members of La Nébuleuse (Manon Papasergio, Clémence Niclas, Imanol Iraola, and Gabriel Rignol) perform Claudio Monteverdi's secular ...

Aryssa Leigh Burrs, center left, and Caitlin Wood, center right, star as Emperor Nero (or Nerone) and Poppea in the IN Series production of Monteverdi’s “Poppea” at Dupont Underground on Friday.