The 2024/25 season of the Greek National Opera commences with a significant artistic challenge. Gluck’s two famous operas based on the ancient Greek legend of Iphigenia –Iphigénie en Aulide and ...

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

It’s one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and is confined to Hades. Orpheus uses his musical magic to secure her release ...

"There is no musical rule that I have not willingly sacrificed to dramatic effect," 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck wrote in program notes to one of his groundbreaking operas. What an ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pittsburgh Opera continues its 2023–24 Season with Iphigénie en Tauride. Composed ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, beloved of opera audiences for his command of the high registers, made a soaring stage debut as Orpheus in Gluck's "Orphee et Eurydice" on Monday ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...