The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale recently announced its 2026-27 season, the first with Peter Whelan as its new ...
Giulio Cesare, the epic Baroque opera about the love story which shaped empires, will be presented by Cinballera Entertainment March 21-22, 2026 at the Shiley Theatre, USD. George Frideric Handel's ...
On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil set in ...
Ars Lyrica Houston announced its 2026-27 season, Visions & Visionaries, a six-program series that explores the power of imagination in music, spanning from the early Baroque to the Classical era.
Opera may not be the mother of modern performing arts — in terms of Greek theater, which was up and running 1200 years before Jacopo Peri’s Euridice first blew the minds of Florence, Italy, audiences ...
Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus ...
The Old World similarities between New Orleans and Venice, Italy, have sparked a new chamber music ensemble in the Crescent City. The Louisiana Baroque Chamber Orchestra made its debut at the New ...
Continuing the festival’s commitment to bringing its audience gems from the German Baroque, BEMF also revived its 2021 Telemann double-bill consisting of the late dramatic solo cantata Ino paired with ...
Opera has occupied a central place in Boston Baroque’s repertoire for most of its 52-year history, but for much of that timespan, those operas were performed in concert, or with minimal stagecraft.
This post was updated Nov. 6 at 10:34 p.m. “Rodrigo” marries elements of past and present pop culture into a spectacle of virtuosity and ambition. On the surface, the 1707 opera “Rodrigo” – written by ...
As a boy who played piano seriously and spoke Italian, Francesco Milioto was almost destined for opera. But conducting? For the Florentine Opera's music director, that journey began serendipitously.
There’s the rip-roaring operetta and the cutting-edge world premiere. The baroque masterpiece and one of the genre’s all-time fan favorites. The rarely heard story dusted off from the bookshelf of ...