In an episode from Mad Men (another excellent piece of art dating from 2007), Roger Sterling says it is particularly American to want a “tragedy with a happy ending.” Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice might ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It is straight-ahead storytelling," said Swackhamer, a Lynn Park resident, who directs the show's April 8-16 performances as the final offering of the 20th anniversary season of Opera in the Heights ...

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 ...

Orfeo falls to temptation and turns to embrace his wife, Euridice, and so the Gods exact their price for his failure to keep up his side of the bargain, as she dies and he despairs. Christoph ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...