Monteverdi Revived: Opera Returns After Centuries in Silence
Monteverdi's 1640 opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria received its first modern staging in Paris, three centuries after its original Venetian premiere. The revival sparked a broader reassessment of early Baroque opera and demonstrated that Monteverdi's emotional intensity and dramatic storytelling could captivate 20th-century audiences as powerfully as contemporary works.
May 16, 1925
101 years ago
What Else Happened on May 16
A grandmother in exile just handed her teenage grandson the Roman Empire. Julia Maesa didn't accept banishment quietly—the new emperor Macrinus thought sending …
Julia Mesa, tía de Caracalla, es expulsada de su casa en Siria por el autoproclamado Macrino y declara a su nieto de 14 años Heliogábalo, emperador de Roma.
Suzaku was twenty-nine and already done. The youngest emperor to abdicate in two centuries, he'd spent thirteen years watching his own health crumble while cour…
Baldwin IX of Flanders ascended the throne in Constantinople, establishing the Latin Empire after the Fourth Crusade dismantled the Byzantine capital. This coro…
Jaime II de Aragón e Ismail II de Granada firman un tratado de paz y amistad por cinco años que será después renovado.
Jean l'Aveugle, comte du Luxembourg, et roi de Bohême, confère à la ville d'Esch-sur-Alzette le statut de « ville libre ».
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