Gluck's 18th-century "Iphigenie en Tauride" will be co-produced next year by the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Opera in the first collaboration between the companies. Stephen Wadsworth will ...

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

"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 ...

It’s a tale familiar from Virgil and Ovid. The beautiful Eurydice, newly married to the musician Orpheus, is killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus descends to Hades to bring her back to ...

Opera Atelier launches its 2023/24 season with the French 1774 version of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, written expressly for Marie Antoinette, on stage October 26 and 28 at 7:30pm, and October 29 and ...

In Greek mythology, the poet, musician and prophet Orpheus rescues his wife from hell. But the couple's earthly reunion is fleeting; Euridice is pulled back to the underworld after Orpheus, unable to ...

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