The College of Music of Sant'Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans...
Venice was surely the capital of music and the arts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and one of the most coveted positions in the city was that of maestro di cappella at St. Mark's...
Cavalli / Hengelbrock / Balthasar Neumann Ensembl La Didone CD1. Prologue 2. Act One, Scene One 3. Act One, Scene Two 4. Act One, Scene Three 5. Act One, Scene Four 6. Act One, Scene Five 7. Act One,...
Francesco Cavalli was of great importance to the history of 17th century Italian music - his fame established in the then new and swiftly evolving world of opera. Cavalli's sacred music has often...