Monteverdi might be surprised to find himself hailed as the inventor of the opera, and he disclaimed the role of revolutionary, but his Orfeo is a radical, innovative and extraordinary work The ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

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 ...

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

One of the most underrated grand tourers of the 1970s, the Swiss-made, Italian-Bodied Monteverdi High Speed used a series of American V8s to persuade wealthy enthusiasts to choose it over a Ferrari. A ...

The tenor sings the title role and also conducts in this new recording that interest and spark but eccentricities; instrumentalists I Gemelli are very fine A decade ago, new recordings of the earliest ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

James Bond never drove a Monteverdi 375S, but the car would have made as fitting a sidekick as his Aston Martin. The coupe has the tasteful, dashing looks Bond would go for, as well as the guts a ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...