For nearly three decades, Opera Lafayette has steadily been expanding America’s understanding of 17th- and 18th-century opera and, more specifically, works of the French baroque. Founded during the ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Julia Bullock, soprano, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the Lobero Theatre. Star soprano Bullock will be joined by the Baroque ...

Even Handel's operas were little known before revivals sparked by the composer's 1985 tercentenary. Since then, enterprising opera companies have explored other operas of the baroque period. Dallas' 6 ...

What would be more ideal than enjoying a performance of classical music, dance, and Greek mythology in the modern age? Bright-toned, lively classical music immediately paints the setting for “Circé,” ...

Soprano Kathleen Battle will return to the Met stage May 12 for a special performance of classical song and favorite spirituals. In an all new video, featuring an excerpt from Baroque Duet, Battle ...

There’s the rip-roaring operetta and the cutting-edge world premiere. The baroque masterpiece and one of the genre’s all-time fan favorites. The rarely heard story dusted off from the bookshelf of ...

Opera may not be the mother of modern performing arts — in terms of Greek theater, which was up and running 1200 years before Jacopo Peri’s Euridice first blew the minds of Florence, Italy, audiences ...