In 1774, 12 years after he composed a tradition-­busting Italian opera version of the mythical tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, Christoph Willibald Gluck revised it for presentation in Paris. With an eye ...

They met as students in a singing class years ago, and now Siman Chung and Sharleen Joynt seem destined to be star-crossed lovers. “We were joking about it the last time we sang together,” chuckles ...

Baritone Matthew Worth as Oprhée and soprano Sara Jakubiak as Eurydice in the Virginia Opera’s production of Orphée. Photograph by David A. Beloff. Glass’s opera is the latest in a long line of ...

Dominated almost to the point of imbalance by its ballet interludes, Gluck’s telling more than any other celebrates music itself – the heroic force for which the grieving Orpheus is merely a vessel.

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When Gluck took on the Orpheus myth, 18th-century opera was in a rut. Ahead of a new Covent Garden production, John Eliot Gardiner explains how the composer created a rich amalgam of text, music, ...

Royal Opera House, London; Welsh National Opera, Cardiff; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London An eclectic production of Gluck’s opera sets the bar high at the ROH, while Bellini finds a new voice in the ...

The underworld actually sounded quite lovely on Sunday night at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium. Credit goes to the Washington Concert Opera, which spruced the place up with a concert ...

The gods are bored out of their minds. Up on Mount Olympus there's nothing to do but be good and live on a steady diet of ambrosia - which turns out to be pretty disgusting. So when the gods get the ...

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