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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...