Although Antonio Vivaldi is perhaps best-known now for his Four Seasons string concertos, it was the success of his first opera Ottone in Villa, which catapulted him into the heart of the opera world ...

There's a piece of music by Antonio Vivaldi that's causing a stir in the classical music world this season. It's a newly discovered opera called "Andromeda Liberata," and opinions vary as to how much ...

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Like much on the mind of the general public, climate change is now in the voices of Opera Philadelphia in The Seasons, an ambitious opera/dance expansion of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons warning of a ...

We play behind bars every week. No one can see our faces. We are shadows or dreams to the people.” Venice, Italy, 1716. Girls ...

An anthology of Vivaldi opera arias entitled “Pyrotechnics” featuring an orgy of gutsy coloratura singing from Vivica Genaux and directed by customarily livewire Fabio Biondi hardly raises much ...

It has never been easy to come to terms with prolific artists. The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. He didn’t. He could always surprise and delight, just like the recent ...