The first and most famous of Gluck’s operas written in the new reformatory style is Orfeo ed Euridice, dating from 1762. The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, an operatic fable about the power of music, returns to ...

The composers of earlier centuries would have a good laugh if they could see the reverence we accord to historical fidelity. In their day they would happily serve up earlier works afresh, chopping and ...

Originally performed in Vienna in 1762, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice has never before been performed in Houston — until now, that is. In a new production sung in Italian, Opera in the ...

It’s business as usual again at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. Well, not quite. I haven’t been there since 2019, and there have been changes and improvements—a new, much less complicated entry ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. Orfeo is an opera on a mythological subject with choruses ...

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 ...

The Met Opera regrets to announce that the Met has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season of live performances due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes all performances and Live in HD ...

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 ...

A staple of the Metropolitan Opera repertory through much of the 20th century, "Orfeo ed Euridice" mysteriously dropped out of sight for the past 35 years. Now it's returned in a flashy, somewhat cold ...