Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended “Orfeo” (twice), ...

In Zurich, conductor Nikolas Harnoncourt realizes his vision of reviving the work of opera pioneer Claudio Monteverdi using historical performance practices, brilliantly staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ...

Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera. The composer Nico Muhly, whose new orchestration of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” is premiering at Santa ...

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Opera Theatre has been named a National Finalist in The American Prize in Opera Performance - College/University (Smaller Program) Division for its 2024 production of ...

With its slightly naff bucolic glitz, and (unplayed) drum kits and electric guitars, the opening look for Longborough’s take on Monteverdi’s revolutionary “favola in musica” of 1607 may irritate as ...

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an option, so ...

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, unveiled in 1607 in Mantua, was the first masterpiece of the newly invented genre of opera. John Eliot Gardiner set the gold standard among recordings in 1987, with the late ...

The first opera from OrpheusPDX opens Aug. 4 for three engagements. Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” (1607) kicks off a short season for the new chamber opera company. OrpheusPDX was formed by Christopher ...

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