This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Six years ago, Peter Sellars came to Santa Fe to remake a troubled opera ...

Town Hall Theatre, Galway ★★★☆☆ The harrowing story of Griselda was alarmingly popular in 18th-century Italy, spawning more than 30 operas between the first, in 1701, and this one, by Vivaldi, in 1735 ...

Vivaldi and his librettist Carlo Goldoni made their Griselda a more strong-willed character. Vivaldi's queen still accepts her fate but she rails against the injustice that is heaped on her. A more ...

If Vivaldi's music sometimes seems too cheerful for the (almost invariably desperate) situation, the arias are often strikingly inventive, full of dizzying coloratura and the composer's trademark raw ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THIS year's annual Christmas offering by Pinchgut Opera reflects its trademark style well. Big budgets are replaced by cheeky fresh ...

Vivaldi doesn't have the clout of Handel among lovers of baroque vocal music. But thanks to rediscoveries of such operas as "Griselda," "Il Tigrane" and "Tito Manlio," the prolific Venetian commands ...