Commemoration of William Christie’s eighth decade began last year with grand stagings in Paris of Charpentier’s ‘Médée’ and ...

The only known surviving full-length opera by French violinist and composer Jean-Marie Leclair is mythological love story, ...

Rome's famed 'cradle of Caravaggio, San Luigi de' Francesi, has got a new lighting system for the iconic Cycle of St Matthew painted by the Italian pre-Baroque master in the French church in the late ...

William ‘Bill’ Christie, harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist, was a pioneer in the rediscovery of baroque music over recent decades, with particular expertise in French baroque opera.

If a Baroque composer wanted a longer sound on the harpsichord, he would have had to add ornaments such as trills and mordents. A mordent is a shorter ornament, with a note played, the note above ...