The 17th and 18th centuries in Europe were teeming with larger-than-life rulers. Louis XIV held court at Versailles, Dresden and Poland were ruled by Augustus the Strong, and Frederick the Great ...

Widely renowned for fueling the resurrection of Handel’s operas, City Opera continues its exploration of the Baroque by presenting the New York premiere of Georg Philipp Telemann’s 1726 opera Orpheus.

Jean-Baptiste Lully was the toast of the town in France during the Baroque era. The French King loved Lully, and today's Beautiful Music is a live performance of an excerpt from the composer's comédie ...

Before Beethoven, what we now call classical music was all new music, made for dancing, entertainment, ceremonies, and to play among small groups of friends. The power of Beethoven’s music created the ...

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Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No expense was spared for the premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Thésée in early 1675. Louis XIV had lavished ...

Photo credit: Tove Falk Olsson In the summer of 2024 the Court Theatre of Drottningholms will present Jean-Baptiste Lully’s grand French opera “Armide.” Musical director and conductor Francesco Corti ...

Jeudi 10 décembre 2015, Christophe Rousset et ses Talens Lyriques secondés du choeur de chambre de Namur interprétaient Armide, le plus apprécié des opéras de Lully. Au milieu d'une distribution ...

Opera One, the latest iteration of the Opera browser, announced in April, is now officially out of testing and available for download for desktop and Android devices. One of the main features that ...

You’ve likely heard their music, but have you heard their stories? From Copland to Corelli, we celebrate some of the greatest LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history. Whether they were able to be ...