Opera Philadelphia’s ‘The Seasons’ is a cautionary climate change story set to the tunes of Vivaldi

The piece goes beyond "The Four Seasons" and explores some great, rarely heard arias from the composer's many operas. The ...

Review: ‘The Seasons’ Jumbles Warnings About Climate Crisis

An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay ...
Classic FM

1,000 musicians just played the sound of our future at COP26 – and it doesn’t sound good

For the UN climate conference COP26, 15 orchestras around the world performed Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’, re-scored for a changing climate. In 1723, Antonio Vivaldi composed one of the most famous ...
Campaign Asia

Vivaldi's Four Seasons reimagined for 2050 with climate data

'The Four Seasons' by Vivaldi is one of the world's most beloved pieces of classical music. Written three centuries ago, it inventively depicts spring, summer, autumn and winter through sound. This ...
Fast Company

Hear what Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ would sound like in a post-climate-change world

Vivaldi’s classic series of concertos, The Four Seasons, is a musical representation of the stable climate that humans have existed in for the last 10,000 years, from predictable rainstorms in the ...

Vivaldi’s the Four Seasons - why we never tire of it

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the music we are often tortured with while on hold to speak to a bank or utility company.
The Quietus

Junk Shop Classical on Vivaldi: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...
Skiddle

Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons by Mystery Ensemble

Join us for a captivating tribute to Antonio Vivaldi, where the enchanting melodies of Vivaldi’s «Four Seasons» will be brought to life by the exceptional Mystery Ensemble. Experience an unforgettable ...