To write "Vivaldi's Virgins" - a novel about the relationship between the 18th century composer Antonio Vivaldi and ... using Vermeer's original.) In both books, the artist's muse is the real ...

Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi has been famed for centuries ... CONSTABLE: I discovered her story by accident. It was in a book in a rental apartment that I was staying in one summer, and ...

Harriet Constable learned a lot about the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà — that she grew up in an orphanage, that she was a star violinist and a favored student of Antonio Vivaldi.

German director Volker Schlöndorff, who won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or and an Oscar for his 1979 drama “The Tin Drum,” is set to direct a film about how Antonio Vivaldi — the 18th-century I ...

While Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" echoes in concert halls and elevators around the world, for some, his greatest masterpieces are not the scores resonating spring, summer, fall and winter ...

Minister of musicAn anonymous portrait of a composer, believed to depict Antonio Vivaldi, does little to signal that he was a priest. The wig and clothes are those of a Venetian gentleman ...

ROME — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio ... Vivaldi,” said Federico Maria Sardelli, who is conducting the opera and wrote a book ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric.

Electrifying violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto rips up the rule book to play Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons like you’ve never heard before. Joined by innovative folk musician Ale Carr ...