I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

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 ...

Claudio Monteverdi is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the development of Western music. As a composer of both secular and sacred music, over the course of his career he worked for ...

The annual Cathedral Christmas Concert is set for Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

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 ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...

Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San ...

The Cleveland Orchestra will tease two of its major centennial projects this week in Severance Hall concerts on Thursday, April 12 at 7:30 pm and Friday, April 13 at 8:00 pm led by music director ...

Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Show more Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Claudio Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Claudio ...

Monteverdi studied with Ingegneri, maestro di cappella at Cremona Cathedral, and published several books of motets and madrigals before going to Mantua in about 1591 to serve as a string player at the ...