Scroll down to explore our selection of the best opera composers from Claudio Monteverdi, the father of opera, to Benjamin Britten who breathed new life into the form. Monteverdi was an Italian ...

And he remains among the best-loved of all 19th-century composers. Listen to Schumann’s Carnaval – a selection of piano miniatures representing masked revellers at Carnival. Italian opera of ...

Gilardino also reconstructed the concerto for guitar and orchestra by the Russian composer Boris Asafiev ... Have you tried the Ugly Ducklings of Italian Cuisine? Listen for a fresh portrait ...

Since the mid-1960s, Edda Dell'Orso has provided haunting wordless vocals to a large number of film scores by Ennio Morricone and other prominent, mostly Italian composers of those times; Piero ...