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 ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) may be the greatest composer we rarely hear much of. His music these days is the work of specialists who must learn how to play the instruments he used and study the way ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a moment of gentle loveliness. The members of La Nébuleuse (Manon Papasergio, Clémence Niclas, Imanol Iraola, and Gabriel Rignol) perform Claudio Monteverdi's secular ...

This year’s spring production by the UCSB Opera Theatre stands at the far end of the operatic timeline. The Coronation of Poppea (1643), Claudio Monteverdi’s final work, not only heralds from the ...

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 ...

LENOX -- Listen to Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 "Vespero della beata vergine," and you can literally hear a changing of the musical guard from the Renaissance to the Baroque period ...

Claudio Monteverdi’s secular masterwork and sacred collection. The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Chamber Choir teams with CCM’s Early Music faculty, students and guest ...

Every artist needs a portfolio - especially one who's hoping to move into the job market - and it was just 400 years ago that the composer Claudio Monteverdi came out with one for the record books.