The opera, which marries the music of Antonio Vivaldi with a new libretto by Sarah Ruhl, was still on solid ground musically ...

This cantina is a legendary spot to stop for a drink and a plate of chicken tacos or snails in the Centro Histórico.

The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the ...

Written as an opera by Henry Purcell, in the Baroque period, Dido and Aeneas, even after 300-odd years, remains one of the most-performed English operas. Yet, for anyone unlettered in Western ...

National Procrastination Week is celebrated annually at the beginning of March – or whenever we get around to celebrating!

Taking place at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama on Tuesday, 4 February, Peter will deliver a lecture titled ‘How to End a War: The Living and the Dead Working Together in Baroque Opera’.

Hailed as a shapeshifting collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to classical music, Ruckus has released its sophomore album The Edinburgh Rollick. Listen to it here.

In this video, soprano Sophie Bevan sings 'Dido's Lament', an aria from the baroque opera 'Dido and Aeneas' by Henry Parcel (1687). Syllabic word setting is when a composer uses one note per ...

Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mecca for Baroque music. Max Emanuel Cenčić, the Festival Director who won the Oper! Award 2024, has ...

Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus ...