Kahlo arrives on the Lyric mainstage this month when the company presents “El último sueño de Frida y Diego,” with music by Gabriela Lena Frank to a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo ...

With clouds of war and revolution gathering in Europe and the American colonies in the mid-1700s, art, literature, theater, ...

Reviews of a Metropolitan Opera performance of Richard Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” a Metropolitan Opera performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” and Emily Anderson’s “The Letters of Mozart and His ...

On January 28, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo presented a rare semi-staged performance of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” in the version he prepared in 1769 for Parma. Written for the wedding celebrations of ...

Gluck's opera exists in a shortish Italian version written for Vienna in 1762 and in a longer French version written for Paris in 1774. In the Vienna version, the role of Orfeo was written for a ...

There was a distinct reason for taking notice of this first night in the Grand Theatre, Leeds, rather than the first performance in Huddersfield Town Hall the previous week (which was, I think, ...

The calendar soon turns to November and the start of a busy month in the arts community. Leading off is Opera in Williamsburg’s presentation of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” in the Kimball Theatre on ...

A black curtain remains lowered throughout the overture to Gluck’s Orfeo & Euridice in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2025-26 revival production directed by Cristophe Gayral (original director Robert ...

Franz Joseph Haydn was busily conducting the first rehearsal of his opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, when into the new King’s Theater walked the royal bailiffs with an order prohibiting the performance. King ...

Expecting realism in opera is like asking Hamlet for a weather report. But even the most fantastic librettos in the current repertory are straight reporting compared to the matchstick plots of 200 ...

The College of Charleston Opera and the Charleston Symphony will present Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Il Re by Umberto Giordano, two exciting short operas, on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.