Members of the Mantua garden club stand at the entrance to the Fairfax County, Va., neighborhood in this 1990s photo. (Fairfax County Public Library Photographic Archive) (Fairfax County Public ...

Vivaldi met the singer Anna Giro during a trip to Mantua and they quickly became inseparable. He wrote role after role for her, and they toured for months at a time, putting on operas as they went ...