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 ...

But not everyone goes in for this sort of thing. To Samuel Johnson opera was “an exotic and irrational entertainment.” It was the alarming mixture of drama and music that put off Dr. Johnson; neither ...

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 ...

A classic tale of love and grief, the myth of Orpheus is the story of a man and woman in love. But one iconic interpretation of the story might not be what you’d expect. It’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” an ...

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), ...