“IT DOESN'T gloss over you. It burrows in deep.” Tenor Nicholas Mulroy is talking about Monteverdi’s madrigals – music he’ll be directing (and singing) with the Dunedin Consort in Aberdeen, Lerwick ...

Claudio Monteverdi, the innovative master of the early Italian Baroque, knew more about the conflict of love and war — make that love as war — than most of today’s rock balladeers. The themes combine ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Produced in 1607 at the ducal palace in Mantua, Monteverdi's Orfeo is considered ...

This is Jane Glover’s Monteverdi winter in Chicago. During the last two months, she has conducted a triumphant production of the great Baroque composer’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” at Chicago Opera ...

Which comes first in song, the words or the music? It’s an ancient dispute, which rose to fever pitch in the Italian Baroque. Rinaldo Alessandrini, the Italian conductor and musical director of this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Italians came late to period performance style, but they have certainly made up for lost time. Rinaldo ...

Les Arts Florissants bravely performed all 22 pieces in this late-Renaissance masterpiece across a single day - with memorable results, says John Allison Director of Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew ...