After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to the stage with its production of "Orfeo." In a first-time collaboration ...

In the bizarre and fascinating history of opera, composers unexpectedly appear who completely change the course of the art. It doesn’t happens overnight, and the musical trailblazer may not even know ...

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 ...

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an option, so ...

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 ...

Story ideas? Email VP/News Jim Rossow at [email protected] The Lyric Theatre @ Illinois ended its spring 2025 season with a remarkable production of Claudio Monteverdi’s trailblazing opera ...

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 ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The problem with combining dancers and singers is that they tend to do one another no favours. The singers make the ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...