After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to the stage with its production of "Orfeo." In a first-time collaboration ...

Over many centuries, the myth of Orpheus’ descent into Hades to retrieve his beloved bride, Eurydice, has inspired the works of such immortal composers as Gluck, Haydn, Liszt, Berlioz, Stravinsky and ...

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an option, so ...

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One third of the Roundhouse seating is blocked by a grand edifice with a contemporary court seated half way up, the orchestra at its base, leaving us in a near-perfect amphitheatre with the performers ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

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 ...

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Manhattan music lovers were listening last week to another English girl who sings straight-out. Two years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain’s Glyndebourne ...