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 ...

Story ideas? Email VP/News Jim Rossow at [email protected] The Lyric Theatre @ Illinois ended its spring 2025 season with a remarkable production of Claudio Monteverdi’s trailblazing opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orfeo (Gyula Orendt) loses his Euridice (Mary Bevan) a second time How we miss Christian Curnyn, founder-conductor of the superb Early Opera Company; I wish him a full return to health with all my ...

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 ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...

Don’t call it “opera in concert.” That term presupposes an opera that was written for a certain set of conditions and is being performed without them. In the case of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” — which John ...