“Farnace” is an opera that offers plenty of opportunity to its singers for the display of passionate emotions, said Wendy Heller, a professor of music with a background in Italian baroque opera at ...

When Anthony Roth Costanzo opens his mouth onstage, audiences usually are a little surprised, and that’s how Costanzo likes it. “It's a kind of shocking thing for people who've never heard one before, ...

"Il Farnace" è un'opera, dramma per musica in tre atti, di Antonio Vivaldi rappresentata per la prima volta al Teatro Sant'Angelo di Venezia nel 1727 con grande successo, al punto da essere più volte ...

Cresce l’attesa per il fine anno vivaldiano al Teatro Abbado (30 alle 20 e 31 dicembre alle 16). Con un ritardo di quasi tre secoli, a 280 anni dalla morte del suo autore, va finalmente in scena a ...

Inside the St. Johannes Lutheran Church on a quiet corner in Charleston’s French Quarter, two female voices fill the sanctuary. Accompanied by a lone piano, the sopranos’ voices rise in and out, their ...

ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara made their peace Thursday with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of ...

There are several moments of darkness in Farnace, but the show itself never falls prey to the despair felt by its characters. The story of a family pulled apart by war, this is to be expected. At ...

Farnace. By Vivaldi. Pinchgut Opera. City Recital Hall, Sydney, December 4. Farnace was Antonio Vivaldi’s final opera. Originally premiered in 1727, it was revised by the composer for a proposed 1738 ...

When a performance of Farnace was cancelled at the theatre of Ferrara after the artistic failure of Vivaldi’s opera Siroe re di Persia in December 1738, Vivaldi’s chance to have his favourite opera ...

First performed in 1727, this dark opera about an ancient king is a "poetic investigation of war and intergenerational hatred". Christopher Lowrey plays Farnace in a dark and disturbing tale of ...