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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Three of the earliest operas to survive from the 17th century remain three of the best: Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” (Orpheus), “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” (The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland) and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coronation of Poppea charts the consuming erotic obsession of the Emperor Nero for the beautiful Poppea Sabina. Ruthlessly sweeping aside anyone who stands in the way of their union - including Nero's ...