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American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that ...

Even amid the pomp and splendor of the 17th century, there was a parallel operatic tradition of intimate dramatic works created at a smaller dimension. All the standard lineaments were in place — love ...

However much influence American pop and jazz have had on French music, in the classical realm the very last thing French musicians are likely to accept is an American showing them how to be French.

Nicholas Garza performs as Orphée during a dress rehearsal of American Baroque Opera Co. production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera "La descent d'Orphée aux enfers" at the Sammons Center for the ...

The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature Le Consort, a baroque chamber ensemble from France, on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. BBC Music ...

For nearly three decades, Opera Lafayette has steadily been expanding America’s understanding of 17th- and 18th-century opera and, more specifically, works of the French baroque. Founded during the ...

When, on a recent snowy day in Paris, members of the early-music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques arrived for a rehearsal at the Collège-Lycée Jacques-Decour, a secondary school near the Gare du Nord, ...

The music of Bach, heart-rendingly emotional but also obedient to musical forms like the fugue, reflects the austere Lutheran culture in which it was written. One hears sunny Italy in Vivaldi’s ...

Just shy of 100 years since the grand French Baroque Brooklyn Paramount theater first opened its doors as a music and movie hall in Fort Greene, it is ready for its second act. The theater reopened ...