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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2026 Review: Dido and Æneas

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This year’s Monteverdi Festival kicked off with a special performance in the heart of Mantua, Italy, in the 18th-century Teatro Bibiena di Mantova (Scientific Theater of Mantua), where a (nearly) 14-year-old Mozart gave his first Italian concert (alongside his father). The theater’s bell-shaped layout and ornate tiers of wooden boxes with painted frescos were designed by Antonio Galli da Bibiena {…}
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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2026 Review: L’incoronazione di Poppea

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(Photo: Lorenzo Gorini) Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” (first performed in 1643) was the composer’s last opera to have survived into the modern day. His works’ left a lasting impression on the Baroque period that continues to resonate today. Monteverdi’s music in “L’incoronazione di Poppea” is a palette of emotional expression, evolving and expanding into worlds of heightened complexity. Monteverdi {…}
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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2026 Review: Le Nozze di Teti e Peleo

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(Photo: Antonio Dimondo) Monteverdi Festival Cremona featured Francesco Cavalli’s “Le Nozze di Teti e Peleo” with libretto by Orazio Persiani as a world premiere in modern times: a major experiment in textual reconstruction and innovative staging at Teatro Ponchielli on June 19, 2026. Cavalli was one of Monteverdi’s favorite students. He was a Venetian composer, organist, and singer of the {…}
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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2026 Review: Soprano Silvia Frigato & Ensemble Mare Nostrum in Concert

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Monteverdi Festival Cremona hosted “La Dea Delle Scene,” (The Goddess of the Scene) at the Museo del Violino’s Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, featuring Italian soprano Silvia Frigato and director Andrea De Carlo with Ensemble Mare Nostrum performing works by Stradella, Pasquini, and Monteverdi. Museo del Violino’s Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium For five centuries Cremona has been renowned as the world capital for making {…}
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Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras Announces Recording Partnership with Harmonia Mundi

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The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras (MCO) and Harmonia Mundi have announced a new long-term recording partnership, launching with three releases led by conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Jakob Lehmann and Christophe Rousset. The partnership launches in October 2026 with Rousset conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Händel’s “Messiah,” recorded during a European tour last year. The release features soprano {…}
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Ensamble Arcana to Present All-Monteverdi Program at Buenos Aires’ Iglesia Metodista de Flores

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The Ensamble Arcana will present a free concert of sacred and secular works by Claudio Monteverdi at the Iglesia Metodista de Flores in Buenos Aires on June 19, 2026. Titled “Esplendor de Monteverdi: música sacra y profana del divino Claudio,” the concert will be led by director Andrés Gerszenzon. The vocal ensemble includes sopranos Oriana Bucello, Constanza Leoni, and Cinthia {…}
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Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg 2026 Review: Mozart’s ‘Coronation Mass’

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(Photo Credit: Claudia Höhne) To be fair, the artistic boundaries of sacred music have been giving the church a headache since the Renaissance. One only has to recall Josquin Desprez and his peers, who cheekily built entire masses around secular tunes — sometimes even seductive ones — to understand why the clergy were constantly reaching for their smelling salts. By {…}
News, Season Announcement

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras Announces 2026-27 Season

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Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras has announced its 2026-27 season. “Our 26-27 season reflects the strength and international standing of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, built on our uncompromising commitment to excellence, our deep partnerships with the leading artists of today, and our ever-present spirit of innovation, curiosity and discovery,” said MCO Chairman Christian Rochat in the official announcement. The season’s {…}
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Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists to Present ‘Dido & Aeneas’

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The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are set to present a new production of Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas” beneath the hull of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich this May. Directed by Andrew Staples and conducted by Jonathan Sells, the production places Purcell’s tragic love story within the drydock setting of the world’s last surviving tea clipper. The cast features {…}

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