In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

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 ...

‘Modernizing’ opera with spare sets and costuming is an attractive proposition from several angles—smaller budgets and reduced complexity, among them. It can work because set dressing should, rightly, ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

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 ...

Ashnaa Sasikaran as Eurydice and Nicholas Watts as Orpheus with members of the Orpheus company We see the respective friends and family gathered, dressed in their best for such an occasion, and the ...

From March 1 to March 10, Boston Lyric Opera presented a new production of “Eurydice,” which originally premiered at Los Angeles Opera in 2020. The golden child of Boston-born composer Matthew A.

With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte? Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, ...

Offenbach turns the well known myth upside down in this Pocket Opera and Napa Valley Opera House presentation of "Orpheus in the Underworld." Orpheus, whose songs could draw tears from a stone, indeed ...

Orpheus and Eurydice, those doomed lovers of Greek mythology, have long been the fodder of great opera composers, beginning with Claudio Monteverdi in 1607. Gluck's version, which premiered in 1762, ...