The production features Gluck’s reworking of the original German opera into a French-language production featuring ballet. Orpheus is distraught after the sudden death of his young wife Eurydice.

It’s one of the most oft retold stories of Greek mythology. The beautiful Eurydice, beloved of the musician Orpheus, dies and ...

The earliest mentions of a supreme musician called Orpheus date back to the sixth century BCE, and in the fourth century BCE the philosopher Plato commented specifically on the myth of Orpheus and ...