Start an early night on the town with a delightful program of arias, duets, and instrumental music from Baroque opera and concert, with plenty of time left for more celebrations in the evening or ...

Structurally a Baroque opera consisted of arias threaded together by plot-thickening recitatives, which could be plucked from one production and slotted into another, sometimes to create an opera ...

By the Baroque era, opera was all the rage across Europe and was a spectacular, expensive affair full of florid arias and ornate stage sets with moving parts. One of the greatest composers of ...

In this video, soprano Sophie Bevan sings 'Dido's Lament', an aria from the baroque opera 'Dido and Aeneas' by Henry Parcel (1687). Syllabic word setting is when a composer uses one note per ...

Dido's Lament' is an aria from the baroque opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Parcel (1687). As you listen to the soprano voice singing listen out for the Baroque instruments including recorders and ...