A Spanish music director has adapted Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" to the grim reality of global warming, adding prominence and drama to the summer concerto while shortening the other three ...

Born in Venice in 1678, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi’s life was marked from the outset by poor health. From the cradle, he suffered from a lung ailment, “a tight chest,” as he described it, likely ...

Vivaldi finished composing his original opus exactly 300 years ago. Costa premiered his adapted version on Tuesday (24 October) at Madrid’s popular EDP Gran Via venue, to coincide with global ...

Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” will be portrayed in “Primavera,” the feature debut of Damiano Michieletto, a leading opera director.

Vivaldi served as music director at the orphanage from 1703 to 1715 and again from 1723 to 1740. In those years, he wrote hundreds of pieces of music for its all-female orchestra and choir.