When Gluck took on the Orpheus myth, 18th-century opera was in a rut. Ahead of a new Covent Garden production, John Eliot Gardiner explains how the composer created a rich amalgam of text, music, ...

Complete Information About Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice in Dallas at The Dallas Opera. Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, originally recorded live at the Winspear Opera House in February 2025, reimagines ...

Gluck's best-known work has been part of the opera repertory for nearly two centuries, but it is only since the rise of period performances and an increased awareness of musicological correctness that ...

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Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. One of the defining early works ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Les Arts Florissants was founded in 1979 it put period performance firmly on the map in France. The ...

Seattle Opera presents the ultimate story of love lost and regained this February with Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, which runs for six performances from February 25 through March 10, 2012. Developed ...

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 ...

The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over ...

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 ...

Gluck composed his most famous opera for Vienna in 1762 in Italian, later reworking and extending it for Paris in French, which is the version we hear in this live recording made last summer at Madrid ...