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 ...

San Francisco opera has opened a dazzling new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice," the classic tale of ancient Greek musician Orpheus and his travels to the underworld to ...

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When composer Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” first played New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the production boasted an offstage chorus and an orchestra of around 70 players. Hailed as an “arresting tour de ...

Let’s start with the placement of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, so phenomenal under conductor Peter Whelan playing for the Irish National Opera in Vivaldi's Bajazet (the team deservedly won an Olivier ...

Revered as an unrivaled musician, Orpheus ventured to the Underworld to reclaim his wife Eurydice after she died from a snakebite. So potent was his singing and lyre-playing that Hades was convinced ...

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San Francisco Opera presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's eighteenth-century masterwork Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice) from November 15-December 1. The new production by director Matthew ...