Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to ...

With its slightly naff bucolic glitz, and (unplayed) drum kits and electric guitars, the opening look for Longborough’s take on Monteverdi’s revolutionary “favola in musica” of 1607 may irritate as ...

As theaters around the world went dark in March, Bienen’s spring production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” was just ramping up. Performing the opera in Cahn Auditorium was no longer an option, so ...

Taking the boat from Festival Pier to Trinity Buoy Wharf I wondered if this was all just a ruse created by aggrieved directors and production companies. Here was a boat filled with the critics of ...

Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended “Orfeo” (twice), ...

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When Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415, the school's principal early instrument ensemble, gave what was billed as the New York staged premiere of Luigi Rossi's L'ORFEO last week, it made me think of ...

Over many centuries, the myth of Orpheus’ descent into Hades to retrieve his beloved bride, Eurydice, has inspired the works of such immortal composers as Gluck, Haydn, Liszt, Berlioz, Stravinsky and ...

In 2013, Silent Opera begins its three-year project to stage innovative performances of Monteverdi's trilogy of operas - staring with L'Orfeo, based upon the Greek legend of Orpheus. In the production ...

Aperi Animam, a local collective of millennial and Gen Z vocalists, sings some of the oldest music in the Western classical tradition, focusing on sacred music from the Renaissance. Now they're ...

After nearly two years of cancellations and dark houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Opera is finally returning to the stage with its production of "Orfeo." In a first-time collaboration ...