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 ...

Item 1 of 5 Spanish music director Hache Costa rehearses prior to performing an adaptation of Antonio Vivaldi's famous “The Four Seasons” concertos as a screen shows an image of flowers in ...

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 ...

'Primavera,' a film about Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” has pre-sold in several markets.

Candlelight: The Four Seasons of Vivaldi comes to Buenos Aires in August. Learn more about the upcoming performance and how ...

You’ll also hear a buoyant double trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and a charming bouquet of Scottish spring flowers. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend. Search Query Show Search.

Viola d’amore, or the viola of love. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine makes this 12-string Baroque-era instrument come alive with ...

Fast Facts. Antonio Vivaldi was taught to play the violin by his father and they regularly performed together in Venice. After training as a priest Vivaldi soon switched to teaching the violin to ...

Ms. Constable’s shrewdest move is to imagine Anna Maria as a synesthete who experiences sound and color together. This gives her musical descriptions a vibrantly visual quality: “The notes come, ...