I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe “The Comet/Poppea” radically pares ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Travel back in time to the golden age of music in Venice and you just might have heard a mass in St Mark’s Basilica ...

Monteverdi was the father of modern opera. Kit Hesketh-Harvey on how he brought the composer's last days to life Sometimes you need a grabby title simply in order to hook the moneymen. Monteverdi's ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San ...

Award-winning travel writer Claire Wrathall began her career at Vogue, going on to join the team that launched Condé Nast Traveller in the UK. She travels the world reporting on hotels that take ...

Claudio Monteverdi was a musical revolutionary. Over the course of music’s history, few composers have had a more radical impact on their art than the Italian, whose 450th birthday will be celebrated ...

Monteverdi’s music is inventive, dynamic, stirring, tender, and heart-rending. Centuries after he wrote it, his music is still full of surprises. Monteverdi is famous for writing the first recognised ...

Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Show more Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Claudio Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Claudio ...