For music scholars, Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610—presented by Early Music Vancouver at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on August 12 as part of this year’s MusicFest Vancouver—is an ...

There’s almost a 1930s show-biz flair to the title: The Vespers of 1610. This music has everything—it would almost have to. It’s by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first geniuses of music (he ...

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NEW YORK-- A totem of Western sacred art, Claudio Monteverdi's "Vespers of 1610" had a less-than-exalted impetus for its publication. The Italian composer, like Bach later with his great B Minor Mass, ...

Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...

Dancers Kirk Gagnon, left, and Eric Thielman will appear in the Marigny Opera House production of Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610' which opens on Thursday (Dec. 12). (Regina Wilkins) The New Orleans ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Claudio Monteverdi's "Vespers" is holding up quite well 404 years after it was composed, which is why the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir is coming to Birmingham on Sunday, April 6, ...

A reissue of conductor John Eliot Gardiner's 1989 recording of Claudio Monteverdi's monumental "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" fully justifies the composer's reputation as the creator of modern music.

Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, 1610) Soloists, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs, conductor (Harmonia Mundi, 2 CDs) Monteverdi: Vespro della ...

Simon Russell Beale travels to Italy to explore the story of the notorious Duke of Mantua and his long-suffering court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent times of the late Italian ...