When one signs up for an opera performance class, it’s logical to assume that performing will be part of the equation. The students who signed up to participate in Princeton University Department of ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Sara Couden, right, as the lecturer/narrator, and Lucía Martín Cartón, center, as Susanna, in “La Susanna,” a forgotten 17th-century opera revived by Opera Lafayette and the Heartbeat Opera in New ...

What it’s about: Seventeenth-century France had no shortage of colorful figures, but it doesn’t get much more colorful in any era than “bisexual sword-fighting opera singer.” d’Aubigny only lived to ...

If the delicious cream puff of baroque is your musical dish of choice, I can heartily recommend that you get yourself to the Studebaker Theater tonight to catch the final performance of Haymarket ...

Besides being a fine evening’s entertainment, Opera Lafayette’s performance of John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis” on Thursday at the Corcoran School of the Arts was an opportunity to consider how far ...