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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Vancouver Opera has announced conductor Jennifer Tung will be joining the creative ...

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 ...