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 ...

NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that ...

The legend of Orpheus, "sweet singer to the gods," who tames the Furies with his songs and gains access to his lost wife, Euridice, stands as music's great singing commercial to itself. Opera ...

Streaming platforms for Orfeo ed Euridice: Vienna Version haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production. By Anastasia ...

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, ...

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 ...