It's no longer news that live music – and not just classical – has been imperiled as much as most other human enterprises by COVID-19. Back in the day, productions closed, but now cancellations are of ...

The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. Nothing is quite true, its spectacle invented and reinvented for its age. Ironically, in our days of access and equality, it is probably far ...

Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel. But another great musician was also inspired by ...

Appearances to the contrary, I don't cover every new Christophe Rousset release; it's all I'd do. But the out early-music wizard is marking the 25th anniversary of his ace ensemble Les Talens Lyriques ...

Introduction / Paul Henry Lang -- The first opera in Paris : a study in the politics of art / Neal Zaslaw -- Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully : the stakes of a collaboration / Catherine Massip - ...