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 ...

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 ...

Choreographer Robert Binet has always been interested in the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. But there was just one problem: he had no appetite to present one more damsel in distress. The ...

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, ...

Heavy rain didn’t dampen the excitement at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on the evening of March 10; Orpheus and Eurydice, the highly anticipated collaboration between the L.A. Opera and the acclaimed ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Plácido Domingo, LA Opera's Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, has announced ...

His three muses were a mixed blessing—but not mixed enough, too undifferentiated in height and appearance. Tiler Peck danced impeccably (as she always does), but for me Terpsichore is both more leggy ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While partnering as a character with obscured vision poses its share of expected ...

Cape Town City Ballet will revive Veronica Paeper's Orpheus in the Underworld in the Artscape Opera House from September 29 to October 7. The comical ballet is based on the Greek legend of Pluto, God ...

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, ...