In New York, Will Crutchfield’s company celebrated 200 years of Italian opera in America with performances of ‘Il Don ...

With an Orphean myth and its own namesake opera, William Christie took us to the very beginnings of opera — and his ...

The vengeful gods of ancient Greece devised devilishly clever punishments. The hunter Actaeon found that out when he glimpsed Artemis bathing in a pool. The goddess, her chastity offended, transformed ...

From a new recording by Musica Antiqua Cologne and conductor Reinhard Goebel, the last two movements — Offertory and Sanctus — from the "Mass for Woodwinds and Strings," by 17th century French ...

If the problem of organizing music for your Christmas party seems daunting, take a page from the book of the 17th century Duchesse de Guise and commission your own — or simply throw the products of ...

Overshadowed in the late 17th century by his politically skilful contemporary Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier is now escaping from his long shadow: the recent tremendous ENO production of his Medea ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who wrote arguably some of the most engaging Christmas music of the French baroque, including the Messe de Minuit. Show more Lucie Skeaping's ...

The descent of Orpheus into the underworld, a familiar subject taken from Ovid and celebrating the power of music, was turned into a two-act opera around 1686-7 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, better ...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier is Donald Macleod's featured composer this week. It’s just a case of bad timing for 17th-century French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier that he happened to be born a decade ...

Marc-Antoine CharpentierWe start off the Christmas Day edition of Performance Today with three instrumental carols by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. They're performed by the early-music group Boston ...