It's an old song”, Hermes (Christine Anu) sings at the opening of Hadestown, but“we're gonna sing it again and again”. Based ...

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Takes on the myth by Jacopo Peri and Claudio Monteverdi are among the earliest ... affecting segments of the evening. Orpheus in this opera is portrayed by two singers, with a baritone (Elliot ...

In a difficult climate, Opera North have blazed a trail. But this experimental production doesn’t entirely work ...

Opera North’s adventurous new production of an ancient tragedy is told through a meeting of the worlds of Indian and western baroque classical music. The bowed strings of the violin and the tar ...

Projection of the broken mind of Eurydice, in Dallas Opera production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice."(Joachim Schamberger / The Dallas Opera) It’s one of the most oft ...

The Toronto Consort caps off its 45th Anniversary Season of Celebration with the world’s first great opera, and one of the most moving love stories of all time, Claudio Monteverdi’s ...

From the Grand Theatre in Leeds, Monteverdi's historical opera The Coronation of Poppea.

It’s a tale familiar from Virgil and Ovid. The beautiful Eurydice, newly married to the musician Orpheus, is killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus descends to Hades to bring her back to ...