In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...

What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...

A general view shows the construction site of the Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin State Opera) in Berlin, November 5, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (Reuters) - The American architect Frank Gehry will be the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The highly anticipated international co-production of the Greek National Opera, ...

"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 ...