LOS ANGELES — Composer Matthew Aucoin began working on “Crossing,” his first opera, when he was in college. It was a work of enormous talent, exciting promise and considerable hubris: Aucoin wrote his ...

For opera fans who can’t wait for our own Opera in Williamsburg’s November showing of “Orfeo ed Euridice,” take note. The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts for 2025-26 begin Oct. 18 at the ...

The Dallas Opera is presenting Christoph Willibald Gluck’s famous 1762 opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” for the first time. In this production, director Joachim Schamberger has reimagined the staging to ...

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 ...

But how much does it really add to the unfolding drama? The theme of this year’s EIF is The Truth We Seek, and there’s a useful essay in the programme about how, in Orpheus, Gluck sought to restore ...

FREDONIA — Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s series of live, high definition opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center ...