Harriet Constable explores Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage where Vivaldi taught and composed ...

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 ...

For those used to hearing the CSO at full scale, with its famous brass section booming at full volume, this evening’s concert ...

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, but ...

Venice, Italy (WHTM) He was known as The Red Priest. He was one of the best known composers and performers of the Baroque era. He wrote over 500 concertos, as well as sacred choral works, operas, ...

BurJuman, the ultimate luxury shopping destination, has been transformed into a concert hall, as it hosts an exclusive rendition of Vivaldi’s infamous ...

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 Italian composer ...

Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

Antonio Vivaldi was one of the Baroque period's most gifted and prolific composers. But his life wasn't just about the music - find out about the women, the priesthood and how he died alone. A ...

Let’s face it: Vivaldi is never going to be signing copies of his latest CD in a branch of HMV or anywhere else. There are those that use this fact as an example of classical music’s limits. Nonsense.