When Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415, the school's principal early instrument ensemble, gave what was billed as the New York staged premiere of Luigi Rossi's L'ORFEO last week, it made me think of ...
Vancouver Opera is returning to live performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the 2021-2022 season. Opening the season is the Vancouver Opera premiere of the timeless love story Orfeo ed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...