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 ...

In 2014, it is the 300th anniversary of the birth of opera reformer, Gluck. For the first time in this opera house, we are staging one of his operas, in a production that is rather luxuriously ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production. By Anastasia ...

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.

The College of Charleston Opera and the Charleston Symphony will present Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Il Re by Umberto Giordano, two exciting short operas, on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Morris’s spirited take on the ancient Orpheus myth stars mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Orfeo, the grieving lover on a quest through the underworld. Soprano Hei-Kyung Hong sings the plaintive ...

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Franz Joseph Haydn was busily conducting the first rehearsal of his opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, when into the new King’s Theater walked the royal bailiffs with an order prohibiting the performance. King ...