In an episode from Mad Men (another excellent piece of art dating from 2007), Roger Sterling says it is particularly American to want a “tragedy with a happy ending.” Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice might ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

There are few entertainments at the Met more delightful than Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” which adds a helpful note of charm to one of the most serious operas ever written.

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A black curtain remains lowered throughout the overture to Gluck’s Orfeo & Euridice in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2025-26 revival production directed by Cristophe Gayral (original director Robert ...

There was a distinct reason for taking notice of this first night in the Grand Theatre, Leeds, rather than the first performance in Huddersfield Town Hall the previous week (which was, I think, ...

The North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) Opera Project, in collaboration with the Boston Festival Orchestra, presents Gluck’s storied opera Orfeo ed Euridice—centered around queer ...

A classical tragedy of lacerating beauty and a celebration of the power of music to transform lives and even to transcend death itself, Orfeo ed Euridice, given its premiere in Vienna in 1762, was a ...

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 ...