A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe “The Comet/Poppea” radically pares ...

What do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois have in common? Aspects of their work have been juxtaposed in a new opera, ...

The characters in Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Coronation of Poppea” are not content to rest on their laurels. In fact, no one in this inspired-by-true-events tale of the rise of Ancient Roman ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. Killer Queen Opera's production of L'Orfeo follows Orpheus ...

Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San ...

Jasdeep Singh Degun’s thrilling reimagining of Monteverdi’s beautiful baroque masterpiece won huge acclaim when it was first performed by Opera North in 2022, winning multiple awards, including ...

This month, Naïve Classiques will release two recordings of music by Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo sung and conducted by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and his GRAMMY nominated ensemble, I Gemelli (October 2) and ...

It wasn’t so long ago that Claudio Monteverdi’s three surviving operas were considered dusty relics, best left in the library or only studied in graduate-school music courses. Now, thanks to the ...

For centuries, opera was not only the most prestigious form of Western music but also the most political. Cohen observes that the invention of opera coincided with the emergence of the modern ...