ROME — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

Utah Global Diplomacy’s Vivaldi by Candlelight concert performed its first show at the First United Methodist Church in Salt ...

Venice, Italy (WHTM) He was known as The Red Priest. He was one of the best known composers and performers of the Baroque era. He wrote over 500 concertos, as well as sacred choral works, operas, ...

German director Volker Schlöndorff, who won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or and an Oscar for his 1979 drama “The Tin Drum,” is set to direct a film about how Antonio Vivaldi — the 18th-century Italian composer ...

Let’s face it: Vivaldi is never going to be signing copies of his latest CD in a branch of HMV or anywhere else. There are those that use this fact as an example of classical music’s limits. Nonsense.

"Primavera," a film about Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned "The Four Seasons," has been ...

In the 18th century, travelers came from all over Europe to hear Anna Maria and Chiara perform in Venice. Neither attained the wealth or the immortal fame of someone like Paganini, but composers ...

The sparkling music of the baroque period illuminates two concerts this week featuring members of The Orchestra San Antonio.