Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s teeming, wearying adaptation of her play is a contemporary vision of the Orpheus myth. By Zachary Woolfe ...
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 ...
Aucoin, 31, is a polymath: the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, he's a pianist, conductor, composer, impresario and writer. And he loves opera—even if he finds it an "impossible" art form. "I ...
Revered as an unrivaled musician, Orpheus ventured to the Underworld to reclaim his wife Eurydice after she died from a snakebite. So potent was his singing and lyre-playing that Hades was convinced ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The musical “Hadestown” and the opera “Eurydice” aim to offer new twists on a Greek myth. But when it comes to their heroine, they ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Vancouver Opera has announced conductor Jennifer Tung will be joining the creative ...
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