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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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 ...

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 ...

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Opera goers on Saaremaa were treated to a showing of the Christoph Willibald Gluck opera Orfeo ed Euridice ("Orpheus and Eurydice") Wednesday evening. Based on a Greek myth, the performance formed ...

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 ...

It’s a tale familiar from Virgil and Ovid. The beautiful Eurydice, newly married to the musician Orpheus, is killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus descends to Hades to bring her back to ...

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 ...

If you could bring back to life the love of your life who has died, would you do it? What if you couldn’t look at them? What if they thought you had changed? What if you had? Then what if they didn’t ...

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 ...