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Claudio Monteverdi

Concert Review: More Masterly Monteverdi from the Boston Early Music Festival

David Hansen (Nerone), Nell Snaidas (Amore), and Amanda Forsythe (Poppea)

The Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Monteverdi’s final opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea, is not to be missed.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Claudio Monteverdi, Poppea

Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival’s Ulisse Hits the Mark

Colin Balzer as Ulisse.

Sunday’s performance of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria—by a company whose members know each other’s abilities, voices, and personalities well—gave every indication of an extraordinary week ahead.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Claudio Monteverdi, Ulysses

Classical Concert Review: Boston Baroque Celebrates Monteverdi — Beautifully

I am starting to love Vespers of 1610 deeply, so I am happy to be given so many opportunities by first-rate groups to re-experience it.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi, Martin Pearlman, Monteverdi, Teresa Wakim, Vespers, Vespers of 1610, Yulia van Doren

Classical Music Review: Green Mountain Project — Monteverdi at his most Audacious

Green Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Claudio Monteverdi, Green Mountain Project, Jolle Greenleaf, Julie Andrijeski, Scott Metcalfe, Vespers of 1610

Opera Review: An Outstanding “Orfeo” from Boston Early Music Festival

The tremendous success and rave reviews elicited by this “Orfeo” are due in large part to Boston Early Music Festival’s superb orchestra and cast of eight singers.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo

Opera Review: ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea’

By Caldwell Titcomb If you know a bit about opera, you will have heard of Verdi – but perhaps not of Monteverdi. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first major composer in the history of opera, and the biennial Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is presenting his last opera, “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” (“The Coronation of Poppaea”) […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Opera Tagged: “The Coronation of Poppaea”, Boston Early Music Festival, Caldwell-Titcomb, Claudio Monteverdi, Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs

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