For opera companies, French Baroque opera is the final frontier. The rescue of this largely unknown repertory from obscurity owes much to the period instruments movement and its proliferation on ...

Bastille Day is a BIG occasion in France – it commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, contributing to the start of ...

Read our review of Vache Baroque’s performance of Charpentier’s opera: the performance shows a good sense of French Baroque ...

While his music is not featured on this program, his presence will be felt in the work of lesser-known composers Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) and Thomas ...

Burris opened the Chapel Series on Saturday evening with “Tombeaux: Le Luth en France au 17e Siècle,” a program that explored aspects of the French Baroque style through its music for lute ...

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 … ...

Discovering the French Baroque – and the man breathing life into early music. If you think Early Music is all beards and debates about tuning - you need to meet Christophe Rousset. Harpsichordist and ...

As a Mexican-American, I felt guilty watching a French Baroque Concert on Cinco de Mayo, but I’m a sucker for lutes, harpsicords, and 17th Century musical exuberance. Les Arts Florissants, the ...

The newest addition to the Huntington’s art collection is a portrait by a major French Baroque era painter -- a work whose artist and subject were misidentified for centuries.