Only three of a dozen or so operas written by Claudio Monteverdi survive in enough of a form to perform. Now, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in the midst of presenting these three as a cycle.

There’s some fine singing to be found in the new production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Poppea” from IN Series. Let’s start there. Composed in 1642, “L’incoronazione di Poppea” was Monteverdi’s final ...

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 ...

For a composer who got a first New York performance of some of his music last week, Claudio Monteverdi goes a long way back. While he was composing his Vespers and Magnificat, Rome’s St. Peter’s ...

"Sexy," as the advance publicity claimed, it is not, but there's plenty of sensuous music as mortal Semele basks in Jupiter's love, and intense drama as she goes too far in asking him to shuck his ...

The tale of dissolution that unfolded before the first-night audience in Venice’s Theater of St. John and St. Paul had the tang of vintage Tennessee Williams. It was rife with adultery and ...