Dancers Kirk Gagnon, left, and Eric Thielman will appear in the Marigny Opera House production of Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610' which opens on Thursday (Dec. 12). (Regina Wilkins) The New Orleans ...

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 ...

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Did Monteverdi, overworked in Mantua, write it specifically to secure a top appointment in Venice or Rome, or did he just want to bundle all his choral and instrumental grooves into one hulking, ...

Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...

Claudio Montiverdi's Vespers of 1610 will be the next musical offering presented on the "Carnegie Hall Live" series on Classical Showcase Friday evening at 7 on Classical 101. John Eliot Gardiner will ...

John Eliot Gardiner returned to King's College Chapel fifty years on from his first performance of the Monteverdi Vespers there. His energy is undiminished, says John Allison John Eliot Gardiner in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Travel back in time to the golden age of music in Venice and you just might have heard a mass in St Mark’s Basilica ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As is the case with his contemporary, Shakespeare, we do not know the exact date of Monteverdi’s birth. Records show ...

Did Monteverdi, overworked in Mantua, write it specifically to secure a top appointment in Venice or Rome, or did he just want to bundle all his choral and instrumental grooves into one hulking, ...