“Songs” that aren’t sung but spoken — and an operatic fragment accompanied by male-female stage combat. The double bill presented by Pacific Musicworks and the Seattle Chamber Players at On the Boards ...

“Many of my colleagues try to turn modern orchestras into period orchestras,” says Nicholas McGegan, an early-music specialist and music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Berkeley, ...

Growing up in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, some of Ahmed Anzaldúa’s earliest musical memories involve sitting at home, listening to recordings of — what else? — composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental ...

Baroque art typically brings to mind rosy-thighed cherubs, zaftig goddesses and gilt. Not anymore--in Vienna. In the Austrian capital's recently reopened Kunsthalle, an exhibit space for contemporary ...

“The Messiah” and “Christmas Oratorio” may be waiting in the wings, but Handel and Bach are already at hand. The season of the Baroque has begun, and it’s proving that it can be the timeliest of music ...

This post was updated Nov. 6 at 10:34 p.m. “Rodrigo” marries elements of past and present pop culture into a spectacle of virtuosity and ambition. On the surface, the 1707 opera “Rodrigo” – written by ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Acclaimed London composer, writer and director Claire van Kampen led the creation ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Chatham Baroque adapted the score, which was found in the library of Bologna in ...