Only three of a dozen or so operas written by Claudio Monteverdi survive in enough of a form to perform. Now, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in the midst of presenting these three as a cycle.

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 ...

Monteverdi’s 1607 “L’Orfeo” is usually the earliest well-known work that everyone agrees can rightly be called “opera.” Yet “L’Orfeo” has had such a sporadic performing history that, up until the ...

There are signs posted at the entry to Maryland Opera Studio's "The Coronation of Poppea" warning that it contains "adult material." This expression usually describes R-rated movies, which are more ...

triple bill of one-acts, which opens Friday, March 26, at the Newmark Theatre, might put a tune in your head, just not one from any of the operas. Instead, you'll be thinking of that classic from ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. For example, there is cave art as old as 30,000 years -- the earliest paintings ever ...

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Ever since its roots in the 17th century, opera has been concerned with the interrelation of love and politics, balancing the unswayable force of one and the power plays of the other. Few early works ...

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 ...

Professor Simon Williams directs the stage action, Paul Sahuc the music and Temmo Korisheli the orchestra. The sets were designed by Xarene Eskandar, the costumes by Stacie Logue, and Benjamin Brecher ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Lamento d'Arianna, or Ariadne's Lament, is the only surviving section of Claudio ...