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 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 ...

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 ...

Only three of a dozen or so operas written by Claudio Monteverdi survive in enough of a form to perform. Now, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in the midst of presenting these three as a cycle.

triple bill of one-acts, which opens Friday, March 26, at the Newmark Theatre, might put a tune in your head, just not one from any of the operas. Instead, you'll be thinking of that classic from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...