Donald Macleod conducts a whistle-stop tour through two centuries and more of Italian opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. We open with opera in its infancy, as Donald explores the origins of the form ...

Baritone Phillip Addis talks 'Pyramus and Thisbe' For its second production of the season, the Canadian Opera Company has taken the innovative step of pairing two short works by Claudio Monteverdi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyric Opera presents The Coronation of Poppea; Monteverdi's passionate baroque drama, in which greed and thirst for power take no prisoners, at Chapel off Chapel from July 15-22. Commemorating the ...

The Return Of Ulysses sees the legendary hero arrive home after his long travails, only to find his palace occupied and his wife Penelope under siege. It’s Pinchgut artistic director Erin Helyard’s ...

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 ...

For centuries, opera was not only the most prestigious form of Western music but also the most political. Cohen observes that the invention of opera coincided with the emergence of the modern ...

The characters in Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Coronation of Poppea” are not content to rest on their laurels. In fact, no one in this inspired-by-true-events tale of the rise of Ancient Roman ...

(Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house.) Those opera adversaries who slam the music for its elitist and Eurocentric associations are ...