Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — Move over, Vivaldi. Step aside, Bach. The French also knew a thing or two about baroque music. That was made abundantly clear Friday evening at the ...

Music from the French Baroque has a very different feel from the more familiar styles by Bach and Vivaldi. The scores of Couperin, Rameau and their peers have a melodic/harmonic piquancy that sets ...

Tomorrow evening at the North Shore Congregational Church in Fox Point, the Milwaukee/Chicago based Great Lakes Baroque ensemble opens its third season with a program that focuses on the music of the ...

For nearly three decades, Opera Lafayette has steadily been expanding America’s understanding of 17th- and 18th-century opera and, more specifically, works of the French baroque. Founded during the ...

In no other age did music and politics converge as successfully as they did under the reign of Louis XIV. Throughout his lengthy reign, 1661 to 1715, the Sun King systematically exploited cultural ...

For this year’s Hanwha Classic, French Baroque takes center stage in a one-woman opera performed by renowned French soprano Patricia Petibon and Ensemble Amarillis, performing in Korea for the first ...

Even amid the pomp and splendor of the 17th century, there was a parallel operatic tradition of intimate dramatic works created at a smaller dimension. All the standard lineaments were in place — love ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The newest addition to the Huntington’s art collection is a portrait by ...