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 ...

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 ...

John Eliot Gardiner returned to King's College Chapel fifty years on from his first performance of the Monteverdi Vespers there. His energy is undiminished, says John Allison John Eliot Gardiner in ...

Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers have certainly stood the test of time. For music to survive four hundred years and to remain popular is not only quite remarkable but also testament to its innate quality.

At the Wigmore Hall, David Bates’s always-compelling period-performance group La Nuova Musica had ten singers (at most) and 16 instrumentalists. That, for a start, shifted the balance of musical power ...

At the start of their first tour with instrumentalists in tow, Harry Christophers’ outfit made Monteverdi’s great choral monument come alive Though the singers of The Sixteen regularly tour the UK’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Pierre Audi’s staging of the composer’s “theater in the sound,” opening this month, is centered on a haunting and an enormous wax sculpture. By Joseph ...

The period instrument group under Christina Pluhar brought a verve and clarity to this ambiguous work that reminded us of its closeness to Monteverdi’s early operatic masterpieces It seems we will ...

As Monteverdi’s magnificent 1610 Vespers gathers momentum in its inexorable march through a big anniversary year, it quickly becomes evident that comparisons, however odious, are inevitable. This vast ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Travel back in time to the golden age of music in Venice and you just might have heard a mass in St Mark’s Basilica ...

A fair number of Monteverdi’s works have not survived, so constructing new ones might be seen as helping out musical history. For the composer’s 450th anniversary I Fagiolini and their founder Robert ...