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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viola player Aliye Cornish is not usually seated centre-stage at the Royal Opera House, and she’s certainly not used to playing while being lowered up and down on a huge platform. She kept a diary ...

A reform opera. It sounds like a place where bad composers are sentenced to hard labour. It was Gluck’s attempt to make new things happen in what he considered to be the increasingly stuck-in-the-mud ...

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 ...

Complete Information About Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice in Dallas at The Dallas Opera (Jun 1 – Jun 30, 2026). Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, originally recorded live at the Winspear Opera House in ...

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 ...