After languishing unattributed and unloved in the archives, Andromeda Liberata is getting a dusting down, having been recorded by Andrea Marcon and his Venice Baroque Orchestra. Why? It may, or may ...

There's a piece of music by Antonio Vivaldi that's causing a stir in the classical music world this season. It's a newly discovered opera called "Andromeda Liberata," and opinions vary as to how much ...

As the attribution on this set suggests, just how much of this serenata was composed by Vivaldi remains uncertain. At least one aria certainly is, but the manuscript of Andromeda Liberata reveals no ...

Fans of Vivaldi's "Gloria" and The Four Seasons are waking up to the fact that he was as prolific a composer of operas as Handel. In this, they're not far behind the performers: European ensembles - ...

The library of Venice's Conservatorio Marcello Benedetto is a bad Italian case of stateliness reduced to functionality. Though it occupies a coffered chamber in a crumbling palace off the Grand Canal, ...