April is National Humor Month, and Sunday Baroque will celebrate the occasion with music reflecting a Baroque era musical ...

It was in 2004 at the Bayreuth Festival, which celebrates the music of Richard Wagner: Christoph Schlingensief, "enfant terrible" of German stage directors, was directing the opera "Parsifal," a work ...

One possibility for the neglect may be that the libretto is very convoluted with an intricate web of relationships that occasionally feel contrived and do not always convince; then again, that is ...

“And try to think together about how we can keep reinventing these myths, especially within the medium of drama and and opera.” For Refini, the creator of the “Viva Voce” series, the spotlight has ...

In addition to this Caravaggio fresco — which he painted for the villa’s first owner, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, in 1597 — the villa has ceiling frescoes by other Baroque masters ...

Structurally a Baroque opera consisted of arias threaded together by plot-thickening recitatives, which could be plucked from one production and slotted into another, sometimes to create an opera ...