Deb Gesualdo, the incoming vice president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, signed an open letter accusing the Anti-Defamation League of promoting “Zionist supremacy.” ...
He murdered his wife and her lover, was tried for witchcraft and dabbled in sadomasochism. But it is for his glorious music, not his grisly crimes, that we should remember Carlo Gesualdo, writes ...
ZURICH — In art and life the composer Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa (1566-1613), was a man of singular achievements. His defining biographical moment came in 1590 when, after pretending to go ...
Classic FM Case Notes podcast: It is 16 October 1590 and as the sun sets over Naples, the composer Carlo Gesualdo sets in motion a gruesome plan. By the time the sun rises the next day, two people ...
The choir’s first release since the departure of its founding conductor filters the composers through a 19th-century lens but things can at points feel a little unwieldy Bruckner and Gesualdo may be ...
A jealous composer who happens to be a prince catches his wife and her lover in flagrante and butchers them to death, mutilating the corpses. The lover, moreover, was a cross-dresser who had been ...
The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Gesualdo. He’s the Italian composer-prince who murdered his wife and her ...
Fiona Talkington looks at the legacy of Carlo Gesualdo and the fascination that his life and music held for certain 20th-century figures such as Igor Stravinsky. Show more Fiona Talkington looks at ...
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