In 1774, 12 years after he composed a tradition-­busting Italian opera version of the mythical tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, Christoph Willibald Gluck revised it for presentation in Paris. With an eye ...

Baritone Matthew Worth as Oprhée and soprano Sara Jakubiak as Eurydice in the Virginia Opera’s production of Orphée. Photograph by David A. Beloff. Glass’s opera is the latest in a long line of ...

From the off, as director Netia Jones (in her ENO debut) tells us, Glass and Cocteau have drawn us into a hall of endlessly reflecting mirrors, a game of shadows and doubles in which each story and ...

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In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...

The more you ponder the organic marriage of music and dance in Orphée⁺, Against the Grain Theatre’s co-production with Opera Columbus and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the more you begin ...

Virginia Opera took a courageous leap into the world of contemporary opera Saturday when it opened the Virginia premiere of Philip Glass’ 1993 opera “Orphée” at the Harrison Opera House. Whatever ...

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"Orphée," the Philip Glass opera, was the surprise hit at Portland Opera last year. Based on Jean Cocteau's on the Orpheus myth, it's a somber parable about the creative journey of an artist accused ...

The underworld actually sounded quite lovely on Sunday night at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium. Credit goes to the Washington Concert Opera, which spruced the place up with a concert ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Schedule Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in its less familiar Paris version of 1774. Bring in John Eliot Gardiner ...