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 ...

‘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, ...

Los Angeles Opera is presenting an updated, socially relevant, radically different interpretation of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s 1774 opera/ballet, “Orpheus and Eurydice.” It is adapted, directed, ...

If not for its bucolic surroundings, the cavernous small-monuments room at the Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor might be mistaken for an abandoned urban industrial plant. A grid of worn lumber piers ...

Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. One of the defining early works ...

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What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...

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The smell of chlorine hung in the air. Call it ambience. My seat cushion was supplied by the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach. Sets of metal bleachers rose on both sides of the arena. Classical ...

Opera singer Lisette Oropesa is having some trouble with the laces on her pale pink pointe shoes. It’s a rainy Friday morning, and inside a big, fluorescent-lighted Los Angeles Opera rehearsal space ...