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 ...

NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production. By Anastasia ...

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In the bizarre and fascinating history of opera, composers unexpectedly appear who completely change the course of the art. It doesn’t happens overnight, and the musical trailblazer may not even know ...

The composers of earlier centuries would have a good laugh if they could see the reverence we accord to historical fidelity. In their day they would happily serve up earlier works afresh, chopping and ...

Jaroussky/Forsythe/Baráth/I Barocchisti/Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera/Fasolis (Erato label) Gluck, Mozart opines in Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, created characters “so lofty they sound as ...

It is clear from his introductory note in the booklet that the moving spirit behind this recording is Jakub Józef Orliński: he was responsible for the casting, and he describes himself as producing ...

This is the first version of Gluck’s opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, complete on one CD: not quite penny plain, as David Bates has included the ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’ from the Paris ...