International Harvester's Scout was built to replace the horse, but a Swiss Formula 1 driver turned it into two models that ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

One of the most underrated grand tourers of the 1970s, the Swiss-made, Italian-Bodied Monteverdi High Speed used a series of American V8s to persuade wealthy enthusiasts to choose it over a Ferrari. A ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

Ars Lyrica Houston will close its season with a WWI-inspired staging of Monteverdi's ORFEO at the Hobby Center, featuring ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San ...

When people think of Swiss manufacturing, watches, chocolate, and precision instruments usually come to mind. For a brief and fascinating period, however, Switzerland also produced genuine supercars.

Monteverdi's eighth and final book of madrigals appeared in Venice in 1638, 19 years after its predecessor. If it hasn't taken Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano quite that long to ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...