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 ...

Monteverdi’s music is inventive, dynamic, stirring, tender, and heart-rending. Centuries after he wrote it, his music is still full of surprises. Monteverdi is famous for writing the first recognised ...

Pyramus And Thisbe brings together 400 years of opera in a visually and dramatically exciting evening that explores lovers torn apart as well as the importance of the poet. In the third, Barbara Monk ...

Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...

Claudio Monteverdi was a musical revolutionary. Over the course of music’s history, few composers have had a more radical impact on their art than the Italian, whose 450th birthday will be celebrated ...

Originally recorded in 2002 for a private client, this album of Monteverdi's love songs is peerlessly performed and faultlessly recorded. It opens with the “Toccata” from Orfeo, a triumphal fanfare, ...