The renowned ensemble Les Arts Florissants returns to the United States this summer to perform its acclaimed semi-staged and touring production of Purcell's masterpiece The Fairy Queen at Tanglewood ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Les Arts Florissants was founded in 1979 it put period performance firmly on the map in France. The ...

As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas begins, here are some novel ways to enjoy the holidays, including a poetry weekend and a Coltrane tribute. By Erik Piepenburg William ...

This summer, Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo marked the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Italian opera in America. From November 1825 through September 1826, a troupe headed by Manuel García Sr., ...

The Oct. 26 “Music at the Frick” concert by Les Arts Florissants, designed to be in dialogue with the collection’s current special exhibition, “To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures From the Terra Sancta ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: MAHLER'S FIRST BY HEART, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: RACHMANINOV’S ‘PAGANINI’ VARIATIONS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: ROSSINI'S 'STABAT MATER', Royal Albert ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Great Frost of 1740, while the Thames froze, Handel was not idle. As though to shut the winter out ...

The final concert in Les Arts Florissants' 30th anniversary season focused on the French baroque repertoire that they have made their own. Grand motets written during Louis XIV's reign formed the ...

Rameau's vivid, emotionally immediate Grand Motets brought a flavour of his importance as a composer of sacred music to the anniversary celebrations The Rameau anniversary celebrations have tended, ...

Welcome to the Arcadian World where shepherds and shepherdesses are engaged in amorous pursuits against an idyllic pastoral backdrop. The pastoral cantata Aminta and Fillide: a story about the love of ...