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Showing posts with label Monteverdi. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Monteverdi. Show all posts

17 April 2017

Graziella Sciutti - operatic soprano

Vivacious performer who became a successful director Graziella Sciutti became an opera star in the 1950s The operatic soprano Grazi...

15 May 2016

Claudio Monteverdi – composer

Baroque musician who gave us the first real opera Bernardo Strozzi's 1630 portrait of Monteverdi The composer and musician Cla...

24 February 2016

L’Orfeo – an early opera

The lasting appeal of Monteverdi’s first attempt at opera A bust of Claudio Monteverdi in the Pope John Paul II gardens in Cremona ...

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