Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, was a perfectionist who spent many years going over the same ...

A luxury cast and simple but effective stagecraft made “Ariodante” the company’s strongest opera in recent years.

an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of the prophets; and seven chapels illustrating the Stations of the Cross, in which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are masterpieces of a highly ...

That’s just part of the reasoning behind Cleveland baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire ... “For people who have never heard the B minor mass with ‘period instruments,’ I think it will ...

“The concert mixes music from the 17th and 18th centuries, which is our usual territory of Baroque ... period-specific instruments that are historically accurate to the time when the ...

The first time I saw Rakhi Singh ... performance and visual art. This amorphousness makes it hard to talk about. “I feel like a bit like Michelangelo making ‘David’ — he can see the ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

A reader has kindly been in touch with news that the Narodna galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has just opened a large ...