Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...
Ensemble Pygmalion's performances of Monteverdi's Vespers and the opera Orfeo were baroque masterpieces for a neo-baroque age ...
Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.
There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...
Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...
NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...
American Baroque Opera Company's Aztec characters in Antonio Vivaldi's opera Montezuma were costumed in flamboyant quasi-native attire designed by Arturo Hernandez. Karen Almond / American Baroque ...
For most Georgian concertgoers, the name Antonio Vivaldi evokes a familiar image: bright violin concertos, rhythmic sunshine, the endlessly recycled ...
It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...