Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) may be the greatest composer we rarely hear much of. His music these days is the work of specialists who must learn how to play the instruments he used and study the way ...

Banished from his ensembles after striking a singer, John Eliot Gardiner has assembled a new group, with the same programming at the same venue. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown John Eliot Gardiner, who hit a ...

2 Casting & Cities Announced For THE OUTSIDERS North American Tour On Sunday, June 15, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists make their Princeton debut with a ...

Don’t call it “opera in concert.” That term presupposes an opera that was written for a certain set of conditions and is being performed without them. In the case of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” — which John ...

St-Martin-in-the-Fields; Royal Festival Hall; Coliseum, London The Monteverdi Choir dazzles in Handel’s pestilential thriller; one organ and 100 speakers pack quite a punch; and Jennifer Johnston ...

The Board of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras has announced that conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It began with the celebrant walking up the aisle alone and in silence – the man who, 50 years ago, shook the frame of ...

Dame Vivienne Westwood is famous for her daring fashions but has now turned her attention to designing evening jackets for the women of the Monteverdi Choir. The Wrap jacket, designed by the British ...

Suzuki and his crew always looked cool but, excitingly, didn’t sound it. Here was choral and instrumental Bach performed not just with meticulous professionalism but a dash and verve that filled each ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There is no doubt which is John Eliot Gardiner’s house. Small groups of people are standing on the London pavement, ...

Over at Christ Church Spitalfields, as part of the annual Winter Festival, John Eliot Gardiner has been serialising Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Actually Bach did so long before him, separating the ...