La Serenissima rise to the coloratura challenges of Antonio Caldara’s baroque story of jealousy and persecution Antonio Caldara was just another composer in the history of the Italian baroque until ...
“Opera proibita” means forbidden opera. The Catholic Church essentially banned opera during the first decade of the 18th Century in Rome, leading to the rise of the Italian oratorio. As a result, ...
A variety of dramatic situations and musical moods is conjured by three soloists playing a range of six different Cervantine characters. Don Quixote’s comparison of a situation to tales from Ariosto’s ...