Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to ...

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 ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. Killer Queen Opera's production of L'Orfeo follows Orpheus ...

In the bizarre and fascinating history of opera, composers unexpectedly appear who completely change the course of the art. It doesn’t happens overnight, and the musical trailblazer may not even know ...

The Royal Opera House and the Roundhouse’s co-production of Monterverdi’s opera L’Orfeo – one of the first operas ever written – opens at the Roundhouse, London this week in a new staging by Michael ...

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an option, so ...

This collaboration between the Roundhouse and the Royal Opera House is full of simple and superbly effective touches, with a strong cast of soloists and vivid playing from the Early Opera Company The ...