Right from the outset, indeed, beginning with the overture, this new production of Orfeo ed Euridice, staged by Matthew Ozawa and choreographed by Rena Butler, strikes boldly at the heart of this ...

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Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mariusz Trelinski with sets by Boris Kudlicka, at the Israeli Opera, was an arrogant attempt at improving on Gluck’s masterpiece. Such “improvement” is not what Gluck ...

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Originally performed in Vienna in 1762, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice has never before been performed in Houston — until now, that is. In a new production sung in Italian, Opera in the ...

The composers of earlier centuries would have a good laugh if they could see the reverence we accord to historical fidelity. In their day they would happily serve up earlier works afresh, chopping and ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera brings its 2023-24 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts to a close on Saturday with a sublime opera about the eternal power of music: Gluck’s “Orfeo ed ...

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 ...