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Celebrated soprano Miriam Allan headlines this energetic program of music written for the female orphan musicians of Venice's famous Ospedale.

Sir Roger Norrington and a strong cast joined a Baroque-style London Philharmonic Orchestra in a highly accomplished Dido and Aeneas, preceded by Handel’s clean and stately Water Music.

It was unfair to pair the exquisite madrigals and songs of Barbara Strozzi with a weighty piece by Monteverdi.

Handel's Athalia is a wonderful English oratorio but this production, while musically wonderful, was marred by a problematic staging with infuriating surtitles.

Giasone was the most performed opera of the 17th century, but this was no dry, reverent exhumation. This was something much better from Pinchgut Opera: a joyous, animated resurrection.

Die English Baroque Soloists und der Monteverdi Choir sorgten mit ihrer unnachahmlich frischen, plastisch-emotionalen Art einen rauschenden, unvergesslich vitalisierendes Jubiläumsbeitrag.

Après avoir entrepris d'interpréter l'intégralité des madrigaux entre 2011 et 2015, Les Arts Florissants menés par Paul Agnew poursuivent leur travail autour de l'oeuvre de Monteverdi en proposant une lecture de l'Orfeo enrichie par une distribution lumineuse, toute désignée pour le répertoire.

"Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie leben im Leipzig des 18. Jahrhunderts," entführt Dirigent Haselböck sein Publikum in die Welt von überirdisch strahlenden Klängen der Geigen, Pauken und Trompeten und des jubelnden Chors - die Welt von Bachs Kantaten.