NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that ...

Let’s start with the placement of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, so phenomenal under conductor Peter Whelan playing for the Irish National Opera in Vivaldi's Bajazet (the team deservedly won an Olivier ...

Orfeo falls to temptation and turns to embrace his wife, Euridice, and so the Gods exact their price for his failure to keep up his side of the bargain, as she dies and he despairs. Christoph ...

There are costumes, there is theatre lighting, and there are sound effects – thunder and rushing wind noises tell us we’re visiting the land of the dead and abode of the Furies (as well as Gluck’s ...

The legend of Orpheus, "sweet singer to the gods," who tames the Furies with his songs and gains access to his lost wife, Euridice, stands as music's great singing commercial to itself. Opera ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

A classic tale of love and grief, the myth of Orpheus is the story of a man and woman in love. But one iconic interpretation of the story might not be what you’d expect. It’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” an ...

WOODBURY >> The Woodbury-based Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation, in collaboration with the Connecticut Virtuosi Summer Music Festival and the Connecticut Lyric Opera, have planned a special evening ...

Right from the outset, indeed, beginning with the overture, this new production of Orfeo ed Euridice, staged by Matthew Ozawa and choreographed by Rena Butler, strikes boldly at the heart of this ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera 3 Review: SAMSON ET DALILA, Royal Ballet And Opera "We celebrate our return to the stage this season with a beautiful ...

One of the oldest stories in Western literature, Orfeo ed Euridice illustrates the power of love and the power of music. Gluck’s version appeared in 1762 and has a lovely, soothing baroque sound.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the small but ambitious Castell de Peralada Festival the famous Catalan theatre collective La Fura dels Baus and its director Carlus Padrissa staged Christoph ...