Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of lustful, visionary nuns. Although relatively tame next to what was to follow, Puccini ...

March is Women's History Month, and we're reaching back to the 12th century today with music by one of the earliest documented women composers. Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1179, and was educated ...

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

The first recording of the music of the medieval German Benedictine Abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, is performed by the ensemble Sequentia on this Continuum. The ensemble continued to record all of the ...

The 12th century abbess, scientist and composer inspires new interpretations of her music, and new works, on an album spotlighting soprano Barbara... Under the spell of Hildegard: A new album reboots ...