Soprano Nola Richardson as Hildegard von Bingen in the Los Angleles Opera premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's "Hildegard" at the Wallis. (Carlin Stiehl / For The Times) Opera has housed a long and ...

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 ...

Discover the visions, the biography, songs and famous quotes of this legendary composer and saint Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it's only recently that her songs, writings ...

Hildegard was born in 1098 to a noble family in Rhineland in Western Germany. From a young age she experienced visions and was offered to the Church around the age of eight. She lived her entire life ...

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 ...

Boston being the lively early-music town that it is, performances of 12th-century Benedictine abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ordo Virtutum,” or “The Order of the Virtues,” are hardly few ...

Pope Benedict XIV has indicated he plans to canonize the 12th-century female composer, mystic, author, physician and abbess Hildegard von Bingen and then proclaim her a Doctor of the Church in October ...

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 ...

Discover the visions, the biography, songs and famous quotes of this legendary composer and saint Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it's only recently that her songs, writings ...