Although Antonio Vivaldi is perhaps best-known now for his Four Seasons string concertos, it was the success of his first opera Ottone in Villa, which catapulted him into the heart of the opera world ...
Opera Philadelphia is continuing to reimagine some of the most classical pieces to bring new audiences to the show. The company is readying “The Seasons,” a new interpretation of the Antonio Vivaldi’s ...
Ruhl says it would be snowing heavily and she was usually in the backseat listening to Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto as a blizzard raged outside. That early exposure to the music of the 17th-century ...
It has never been easy to come to terms with prolific artists. The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. He didn’t. He could always surprise and delight, just like the recent ...
Like much on the mind of the general public, climate change is now in the voices of Opera Philadelphia in The Seasons, an ambitious opera/dance expansion of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons warning of a ...