It is fascinating to hear this music, though, if only to become reacquainted with Verdi’s tight, workmanlike early style. As ...

Opera NEO is a first-rate troupe taking exciting and entertaining chances, as with this poetic paean to the first Crusade, ...

The enterprising Boston Opera Collaborative is presenting a condensed version of the ultimate opera seria, Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” at the Longy School’s Pickman Auditorium, June 11, 12, and ...

From 'A. Scarlatti: Griselda' By René Jacobs Alessandro Scarlatti, who helped push the new style of opera seria into place, is ripe for rediscovery. He wrote 114 operas, yet none are performed today.

This style would be dominant for almost 200 years. By the time we get to Mozart in the late 1700s, we have opera buffa and opera seria as well-established genres. Opera buffa was an opera with comedy.

The uniting factor for this program, presented by Boston Early Music Festival, was its genre: opera seria, the 18th-century style of Italian opera that generally adapted stories from antiquity and ...

And the opera seria required a different technique. “Even if there was an occasional revival of a Rossini serious opera, it was a farce, it didn’t work.