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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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. For the first time, San Francisco Opera will present Gluck's opera in its ...
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 ...
San Francisco opera has opened a dazzling new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice," the classic tale of ancient Greek musician Orpheus and his travels to the underworld to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When: 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 29; 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31. Where: Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $25-$92. Info: For information ...
Love lost, regained, lost again ...? Is there a sadder tale to tell than that mythic one of Orpheus and Eurydice? He braves the dangers of hell to bring his beloved back from the dead but blows it ...
The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted from composer Christoph Willibald-Gluck and Ranieri ...