It's no longer news that live music – and not just classical – has been imperiled as much as most other human enterprises by COVID-19. Back in the day, productions closed, but now cancellations are of ...

Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel. But another great musician was also inspired by ...

This could be the comeback of all comebacks. After a hiatus of 320 years, Baroque composer Paolo Lorenzani's Nicandro e Fileno is getting its second major production, thanks to the efforts of a ...

GREAT BARRINGTON Gods and goddesses arrive on clouds. Zephyrs fly through. Demons, jugglers and acrobats pop in and out. At one point the heroine is about to jump off a cliff and zephyrs rescue her in ...

Jordi Savall plays the gamba, an early cello-like instrument, and specializes in solo recordings of gamba music. He is also an accomplished and respected conductor. It's in that role that we hear him ...

I. Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance : Music in the life of the Greeks ; The beginning of the Middle Ages ; The worldly songs of the Trouvères and Troubadours ; Early polyphony and the beginnings of ...