With Chicago Opera Theater now focusing on contemporary music theater works, the responsibility for introducing Chicago audiences to seldom-performed stage works from the 17th and 18th centuries rests ...

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 ...

Music historians generally agree that Western opera began around the turn of the 17th Century in Europe. However, the modern repertoire generally ignores the first 150 years in favor of the works of ...

The ensemble, founded by Miami native David O. Hartman, seeks to make the 425-year-old art form accessible in new ways.

"DE FACTO, there has been little baroque opera performed in Slovakia," said Martin Bendik, dramaturge with the Slovak National Theatre.The causes are the staging specifications and demanding ...

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Nicholas Garza performs as Orphée during a dress rehearsal of American Baroque Opera Co. production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera "La descent d'Orphée aux enfers" at the Sammons Center for the ...

On Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 29, the Yale Baroque Opera Project, or YBOP, will present its 15th annual production, Luigi Rossi’s 1647 opera “Orfeo.” The performances will take place at the ...

In this March 13, 2013 photo provided by the Gotham Chamber Opera, the cast performs in Francesco Cavalli’s “Eliogabalo” during a dress rehearsal by the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York. (AP ...

With a voice of angelic purity, halo of frizzy hair and girlish sweet smile, Emma Kirkby has been a kind of fairy princess of the early music movement since she first dropped in on it in the early ...