A general view shows the construction site of the Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin State Opera) in Berlin, November 5, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (Reuters) - The American architect Frank Gehry will be the ...

The Orpheus legend may have inspired the earliest of operas, but it gets a becomingly modern makeover in the Minnesota Opera’s season-opening production of Christoph Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice.” ...

Of the six composers whose names adorn the proscenium arch of the Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have ...

Why is the character Don Juan so popular, century after century, in countries all around the world? After all, he breaks all the rules of propriety and morality. Well, maybe that's why! Here's music ...

In Greek mythology, the poet, musician and prophet Orpheus rescues his wife from hell. But the couple's earthly reunion is fleeting; Euridice is pulled back to the underworld after Orpheus, unable to ...

What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...

Opera Australia’s collaboration with Circa breathes dazzling new life into Gluck’s mythology-mining Orpheus & Eurydice.

January is never a dull month at Virginia Opera. The company frequently uses the post-holiday part of the performance season to mount productions that are outside of the Italian-French repertoire ...

(Reuters) - The American architect Frank Gehry will be the stage designer of a new production of the Christoph Gluck opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" for Berlin's Staatsoper, the company announced on Monday ...