She worked for the Medici family, modelling her career on that of her father Giulio Caccini. Although there is evidence to suggest Caccini wrote at least 16 staged works, only one opera by Caccini ...

This weekend, the Boston Early Music Festival presents Francesca Caccini’s “La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina,” the latest in its annual series of chamber operas. First performed in 1625, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the worlds of opera and classical music, women are ever more prominent and distinguished — as composers, ...

Francesca Caccini—a virtuoso singer, court composer, and music teacher in the employ of the Medicis—was caught up in the invention of opera as an art form in the early seventeenth century. She likely ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — When the sorceress Alcina sets a spell in motion during the opera that bears her name, she entrancingly waves her wand over her forest of once-human trees; her imprisoned lover, ...

After 150 years, Olga Neuwirth is representing female composers on Vienna Opera’s stage for the first time ever – we explore why this historic day didn’t happen sooner. Vienna State Opera made news ...