A Swiss marque blends Italian bodywork with a mid-mounted Chrysler 426 Hemi, born from a fallout with Enzo Ferrari. Big ...

One of the most underrated grand tourers of the 1970s, the Swiss-made, Italian-Bodied Monteverdi High Speed used a series of American V8s to persuade wealthy enthusiasts to choose it over a Ferrari. A ...

I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...

When we speak about Swiss-made products, the first items that come to mind are watches or army knives. However, more than half a century ago, an ambitious businessman wanted to add supercars to that ...

James Bond never drove a Monteverdi 375S, but the car would have made as fitting a sidekick as his Aston Martin. The coupe has the tasteful, dashing looks Bond would go for, as well as the guts a ...

American V-8s have found their way into numerous European sports cars over the years, creating memorable hybrids like the Shelby Cobra. This episode of "Jay Leno's Garage" features a car that married ...

Sorrell conducted the “Vespers” here in 1998 and 2001 before putting the score away until the current run. In the years since she last shaped the piece, her command of Monteverdi’s idiom has become ...