For over four centuries, the Orpheus myth has inspired opera composers. One was Luigi Rossi, whose 1647 retelling deserves more attention. By Anthony Tommasini The period band Juilliard415 and ...
NEW YORK — When it had its premiere in Paris in 1733, Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” set off a war in French opera. You had to choose sides: Were you an old-fogey “lulliste” — a partisan of Lully, the ...
Edward Berkeley, Juilliard’s longtime opera director, joins forces with the esteemed Baroque conductor Harry Bicket to shepherd a production of Monteverdi’s devilishly effective treatment of Roman ...