It has never been easy to come to terms with prolific artists. The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. He didn’t. He could always surprise and delight, just like the recent ...

“We play behind bars every week. No one can see our faces. We are shadows or dreams to the people.” Venice, Italy, 1716. Girls abandoned due to poverty or illicit relationships grew up in an orphanage ...

ROME — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of ...