San Francisco opera has opened a dazzling new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice," the classic tale of ancient Greek musician Orpheus and his travels to the underworld to ...

Two things about Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice,” his 1762 opera, are not only the power and beauty of its melodies but also the sensation in a listener that the 260-year-old work is surprisingly ...

When composer Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” first played New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the production boasted an offstage chorus and an orchestra of around 70 players. Hailed as an “arresting tour de ...

Composer, conductor and MacArthur "genius" Mathew Aucoin just debuted his opera, 'Eurydice,' at the Met. The new work reinterprets an ancient,... In 'Eurydice,' Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl recast ...

This is the oldest work that Mariusz Treli?ski has taken on in his 15 years as an opera director. He chose the Viennese version of Gluck’s opera, performed in Italian and with a baritone Orfeo.

San Francisco Opera presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's eighteenth-century masterwork Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice) from November 15-December 1. The new production by director Matthew ...