In their upcoming production, members of the Yale Baroque Opera Project will perform in English for the first time ever. “Erismena,” with music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Aurelio Aureli, ...

Over the recent months you've been hearing about how classical music can help you relax, learn and grow. And it turns out there is one period of classical music that is worth singling out as ...

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 ...

On Sunday, April 10, Cal Performances presented a concert in Zellerbach Hall by English Baroque Soloists conducted by the group’s founding director, John Eliot Gardiner. Performing on period ...

As an opera conductor, RenΘ Jacobs knows his profession from both sides. The Belgian musician began his career as a counter-tenor and quickly established a position at the top of his field, working ...

How on earth to describe La Didone - Francesco Cavalli's 17th-century baroque opera -as spliced, diced and served up for the Edinburgh International Festival by the Wooster Group of New York? The ...

presentation of J.S. Bach's "St. John Passion" is an ambitious undertaking, a collaboration among three groups involving a four-city tour, a recording and a new look at one of the great settings of ...

Alongside the more grandiose offerings at Lincoln Center Festival 09, Béla Pintér and Company's "Peasant Opera" requires an intimate staging. How else to smell the lettuce leaves being plucked by its ...