Rich in honey-hued churches and elaborate baroque designs, the southern Italian city of Lecce is often regarded as the 'Florence of the South'. The construction of Basilica di Santa Croce took ...

From 3 June to 28 September 2025, the Palace of Versailles is presenting an exhibition focusing on the famous bust of Louis ...

Boston Baroque’s well-casted and boldly presented “Ariodante” was a musically memorable performance of Handel’s underrated masterpiece.

The German-British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel moved to Dublin, bringing his harpsichord with him briefly; he lived on Abbey Street for a period from late 1741. The first performance ...

Performing on period instruments ... the first movement to the cheeky syncopations in the third movement, Boston Baroque tackled this work with aplomb, lending a unique agility to this full ...

The Baroque era is from about 1600 to 1750, and includes some well-known classical artists like Bach and Vivaldi. “There’s such a wide variety of Baroque music … but most of it is about ...

NZSO Section Principal Timpani Laurence Reese (Photo/Supplied) “The Baroque era was when the timpani began to be utilised more and in diverse ways. I also get to play timpani for Handel’s ...

In classical music today, many composers from the Baroque era, roughly 1600 to 1750, remain well-known names — at least, the European ones do, like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel. But what about ...

He fled Rome to avoid a life sentence. Caravaggio's revolutionary style helped anticipate the Baroque period. However the sudden end of his dramatic and turbulent life — at the age of 38 ...

Velázquez is one of Spain’s most iconic painters and an undisputed titan of the Baroque era. For anyone eager to trace this master’s artistic roots, Seville won’t disappoint, as there are ...

the birth of the concerto and the sonata, and the genius of composers like Bach, Handel and Monteverdi. Dive into the era of Pachelbel's Canon and Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the weekend Baroque Show.

Private-equity professionals Nadia and Shahriar met in Massachusetts when Nadia was a senior at Wellesley and Shahriar had moved to Boston after graduating from Wharton. On vacation in Croatia two ...