Set in a 1950s “Mad Men”-era dreamscape, Inland Northwest Opera’s all-new production of Christoph Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” reimagines Orpheus, the hapless hero, as a musician mourning the loss ...

Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. One of the defining early works ...

In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

Two things about Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice,” his 1762 opera, are not only the power and beauty of its melodies but also the sensation in a listener that the 260-year-old work is surprisingly ...

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The Dallas Opera is presenting Christoph Willibald Gluck’s famous 1762 opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” for the first time. In this production, director Joachim Schamberger has reimagined the staging to ...

From the very first moment, Gluck's Orpheus is in the throes of grief. His wife has already been spirited away to the Underworld, presumably lost forever. But then Amore, the god of love, moved by ...

That’s a big ambition, as the two might seem to have little in common. But Anna Himali Howard’s simple production concept of a marriage celebration, where Orpheus is a white British guy and Eurydice ...

Opera singer Lisette Oropesa is having some trouble with the laces on her pale pink pointe shoes. It’s a rainy Friday morning, and inside a big, fluorescent-lighted Los Angeles Opera rehearsal space ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, she ...

For over four centuries, the Orpheus myth has inspired opera composers. One was Luigi Rossi, whose 1647 retelling deserves more attention. By Anthony Tommasini What became known as opera originated in ...