Juneau’s Orpheus Project, formerly known as Opera to Go, will present its production of “L’Orfeo: The Tale of Orpheus” on February 12, 13 and 14 in Juneau. The production features music direction by ...

Monteverdi’s retelling of the Orpheus myth in a bold but unconvincing contemporary setting Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo from 1607 is one of the very first operas, and the earliest to enjoy a place in the ...

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 ...

This month, Naïve Classiques will release two recordings of music by Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo sung and conducted by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and his GRAMMY nominated ensemble, I Gemelli (October 2) and ...

Keyboard player and choir director Joseph McHardy chooses his favourite recording of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Kirsten Gibson picks some of the week's best new classical releases. Kirsten Gibson joins ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Need proof that Apollo's Fire has grown? Attend its new production of Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." Seventeen years after their last performance of the 17 th-century masterpiece, the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, regarded as the first great opera, is now 400 years old, an anniversary that has found the work ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Look back far enough in time and the myths of different cultures have shared roots. For Jung, this was the ...

NEW YORK — It makes perfect sense that Orpheus was the first hero of the 400-year-old art form called opera. Laying aside the political and religious significance of the character in late Renaissance ...