Sara Couden, right, as the lecturer/narrator, and Lucía Martín Cartón, center, as Susanna, in “La Susanna,” a forgotten 17th-century opera revived by Opera Lafayette and the Heartbeat Opera in New ...

When one signs up for an opera performance class, it’s logical to assume that performing will be part of the equation. The students who signed up to participate in Princeton University Department of ...

Born during an international fervor for rediscovering the sound of medieval, renaissance and baroque music on period instruments, Seattle’s 32-year-old Early Music Guild is a ubiquitous champion of ...

Besides being a fine evening’s entertainment, Opera Lafayette’s performance of John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis” on Thursday at the Corcoran School of the Arts was an opportunity to consider how far ...

What it’s about: Seventeenth-century France had no shortage of colorful figures, but it doesn’t get much more colorful in any era than “bisexual sword-fighting opera singer.” d’Aubigny only lived to ...

Armide is not your usual knight-meets-sorceress romance. Considered the masterpiece of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the dominant figure in late-17th-century French music, Armide premiered at the Paris Opera ...