Seventeenth-century opera is so seldom performed that Opera Atelier’s latest production — Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1688 opera “David and Jonathan” — should be required viewing for ...

Operatic Soprano Tiffany Herring will perform Saturday during an event called “History of Italy and Italian Opera in ... from the earliest days of opera in 17th century Florence, Italy, all ...

Rigoletto has undergone ­radical transformations in the past, including the English National Opera’s mafioso-style ­version in 1982, which shifted the ­original’s 16th Century Italian ...

The 52-year-old has been on the road since 2019 with a remarkable early 17th century work, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, painted by Italian baroque painter, Michelangelo Merisi, more popular as the ...

was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big success. But his second was a total flop.