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Did Monteverdi, overworked in Mantua, write it specifically to secure a top appointment in Venice or Rome, or did he just want to bundle all his choral and instrumental grooves into one hulking, ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

The challenge of The Sixteen on their latest tour was never going to be one of communication, only of adapting in the move between cathedrals and concert halls. If the Winchester experience began in ...

This year marks the 450 th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi, and concert halls are full of performances of his works – particularly the 1610 Vespro della Beate Vergine. On Sunday night ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Pierre Audi’s staging of the composer’s “theater in the sound,” opening this month, is centered on a haunting and an enormous wax sculpture. By Joseph ...

Dancers Kirk Gagnon, left, and Eric Thielman will appear in the Marigny Opera House production of Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610' which opens on Thursday (Dec. 12). (Regina Wilkins) The New Orleans ...

Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...

One of Britain’s most renowned early music groups will fill Durham Cathedral with the sounds of seventeenth century Venice. I Fagiolini will make their first-ever visit to the cathedral to perform ...

For a work that’s more than 400 years old, Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610” remains hugely popular. It’s also hugely mysterious. We’re not sure whether the composer intended it as an actual ...

Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, 1610) Soloists, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs, conductor (Harmonia Mundi, 2 CDs) Monteverdi: Vespro della ...

For a city to have one performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beata Vergine” in a calendar year might be accounted a blessing. To have two seems almost decadent. Part plainchant, part ...