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 ...

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 ...

Gardiner returns to San Francisco this month to conduct “Orfeo” at Davies Symphony Hall. The April 27 concert, presented as part of the S.F. Symphony”s Great Performers series, features the great ...

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 ...

You’ve conducted a lot of opera around the world, but you haven’t recorded many. The Taverner Consort and Players made two different recordings of Dido and Aeneas, and then there’s a famous recording ...

Juneau’s Orpheus Project, formerly known as Opera to Go, will present its production of “L’Orfeo: The Tale of Orpheus” on February 12, 13 and 14 in Juneau. The production features music direction by ...

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On October 29, 3 p.m., Early Music Vancouver presents Monteverdi's opera Orfeo at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Road, UBC). GRAMMY award-winner and Monteverdi specialist ...

(L-R) Mariana Flores and Francesca Aspromonte as Eurydice and Music in a performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the BBC Proms on Tuesday 4 August, with the English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir ...

“There’s basically no (other) opera in the area,” said Jeffrey Sichel, assistant professor of theater at Bard College and director of “L’Orfeo.” “As we’ve been doing them, we find a tremendous ...