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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, an operatic fable about the power of music, returns to ...

Opera companies like to perform Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” every so often for the same reason that some people indulge in periodic toxic cleansing. Opera’s steady diet of inflated emotion, its ...

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 ...

Recordings of Orfeo, in one or another of its several guises, have been flowing freely from the record companies just recently. This new one offers a 'pure' Italian version: the music exactly as ...

2003-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Gluck's 1762 masterpiece "Orfeo ed Euridice" proclaimed a whole new aesthetic approach for opera, a stripped-down, efficient alternative to the ornate display ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gluck’s simple, affecting masterpiece is so intermittently performed that any encounter should be welcomed.

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 ...

(Angel SBL-3717, with Grace Bumbry as Orfeo and Vaclav Neumann conducting; and DGG-l39268/69, with FischerDieskau and Karl Richter). Bumbry’s singing has more warmth, and so does Neumann’s conducting, ...