“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely. By Seth Colter Walls Morality takes a hike in Claudio ...

F our years ago, the Leeds-based Opera North and South Asian Arts came up with a bold plan to collaborate on an opera. Opening this week, Monteverdi’s 1607 Orfeo – one of the earliest known operas, a ...

Through Monteverdi’s later works, such as the scena Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Battle of Tancred and Clorinda), and his final surviving opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea (The ...

Worldwide there will be performances in churches, concert halls and opera houses of his works, which include this 1610 Vespers and other liturgical settings, eight books of madrigals, and his three ...

Coronation of Poppea charts the consuming erotic obsession of the Emperor Nero for the beautiful Poppea Sabina. Ruthlessly sweeping aside anyone who stands in the way of their union - including Nero's ...

Award-winning travel writer Claire Wrathall began her career at Vogue, going on to join the team that launched Condé Nast Traveller in the UK. She travels the world reporting on hotels that take ...