baroque opera

Four Baroque operas: two from Michel-Richard de Lalande and two from Marc-Antoine Charpentier performed by casts from the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF)

This week's opera comes from London's Royal Opera and features Antonio Vivaldi's 1735 opera about the life of Bajazet after his defeat by Tamerlane.

For 278 years, Antonio Vivaldi's opera laid dormant in the National Library in Turin. It was found and brought back to life in 2005, and it is to that recording we'll be listening on this week's program.

We have a historical rarity on this week’s Sunday Opera (1/10 3:00 p.m.) with Johann Adolph Hasse’s “Cleofide.” Hasse, who was incredibly popular during…

Jean-Marie Leclair is considered to be the founder of the French violin school, but we’ll be turning to one of his operas on this week’s Sunday Opera…

This week we have highlights from Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso, from a much praised recording featuring Veronica Cangemi and Jennifer Larmore, with…

This week Dr. Lewis Baratz concludes his discussion of the early Baroque madrigal with an works of Giaches de Wert, Sigismondo d'India, and a close look…

Dr. Lewis Baratz concludes his discussion of Francesco Cavalli on Friday, May 5th at 11 PM with contrasting some of Cavalli's most brilliant opera arias…