The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

Every artist needs a portfolio - especially one who's hoping to move into the job market - and it was just 400 years ago that the composer Claudio Monteverdi came out with one for the record books.

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

Monteverdi was the father of modern opera. Kit Hesketh-Harvey on how he brought the composer's last days to life Sometimes you need a grabby title simply in order to hook the moneymen. Monteverdi's ...

John Eliot Gardiner returned to King's College Chapel fifty years on from his first performance of the Monteverdi Vespers there. His energy is undiminished, says John Allison John Eliot Gardiner in ...