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 ...

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 ...

Originally performed in Vienna in 1762, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice has never before been performed in Houston — until now, that is. In a new production sung in Italian, Opera in the ...

NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that ...

Gluck, one of the great musical reformers of his day, sought to create a fully integrated music drama, free of excess, that told the Orpheus legend in the most intense and economical way possible. The ...

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It is clear from his introductory note in the booklet that the moving spirit behind this recording is Jakub Józef Orliński: he was responsible for the casting, and he describes himself as producing ...

The composers of earlier centuries would have a good laugh if they could see the reverence we accord to historical fidelity. In their day they would happily serve up earlier works afresh, chopping and ...