The Seattle Baroque Orchestra launched its 2008-09 season into brave new territory this past weekend. It is spending the year without music director Ingrid Matthews, who is taking a season-long ...

Those portraits we see of baroque era composers usually show buttoned up older men, wearing grey powdered wigs, and looking very serious. But these composers were once young men, forging out on their ...

For some classical music lovers, nothing can compare to a well-executed baroque opera, with the machine of the orchestra clicking along and the singers filigreeing their da capo ornaments on top. It’s ...

NEW HAVEN >> Regular opera can be intimidating to outsiders, until they embrace its great singing, music, drama, comedy and spectacle. But baroque opera? That sounds more obscure and divorced from ...

As we use it today, the term baroque is synonymous with grand, exuberant, over the top. Bauhaus, the German art-and-craft movement that emerged after the horrors of World War I, on the other hand, ...

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 ...

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Boston Baroque's 2021-2022 season returns to the much-anticipated annual staged opera with performances of Handel's rarely-heard Amadigi di Gaula. Performances will take place on Thursday, April 21 at ...