When Anthony Roth Costanzo opens his mouth onstage, audiences usually are a little surprised, and that’s how Costanzo likes it. “It's a kind of shocking thing for people who've never heard one before, ...

“Farnace” is an opera that offers plenty of opportunity to its singers for the display of passionate emotions, said Wendy Heller, a professor of music with a background in Italian baroque opera at ...

Inside the St. Johannes Lutheran Church on a quiet corner in Charleston’s French Quarter, two female voices fill the sanctuary. Accompanied by a lone piano, the sopranos’ voices rise in and out, their ...

Farnace was one of Vivaldi's greatest theatrical triumphs. Vivaldi’s operas are a unique blend of beauty and brilliance and in Farnace we find the composer at the pinnacle of his operatic career. This ...

Farnace was one of Vivaldi's greatest theatrical triumphs. Vivaldi’s operas are a unique blend of beauty and brilliance and in Farnace we find the composer at the pinnacle of his operatic career. This ...

When a performance of Farnace was cancelled at the theatre of Ferrara after the artistic failure of Vivaldi’s opera Siroe re di Persia in December 1738, Vivaldi’s chance to have his favourite opera ...

Farnace. By Vivaldi. Pinchgut Opera. City Recital Hall, Sydney, December 4. Farnace was Antonio Vivaldi’s final opera. Originally premiered in 1727, it was revised by the composer for a proposed 1738 ...

First performed in 1727, this dark opera about an ancient king is a "poetic investigation of war and intergenerational hatred". Christopher Lowrey plays Farnace in a dark and disturbing tale of ...