Opera Ithaca will present a new production of Jacques Offenbach's sinfully delightful Orpheus in the Underworld on April 28th and 29th at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. This gleefully comedic sendup of ...

The story of Orpheus' descentinto the underworld to retrieve his beloved Eurydice has fascinated people for centuries. Plato wasn't a fan . He thought Orpheus took the easy way out. He reasoned if ...

Set in a 1950s “Mad Men”-era dreamscape, Inland Northwest Opera’s all-new production of Christoph Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” reimagines Orpheus, the hapless hero, as a musician mourning the loss ...

Two things about Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice,” his 1762 opera, are not only the power and beauty of its melodies but also the sensation in a listener that the 260-year-old work is surprisingly ...

We Europeans tend to think of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as “ours”, but the story of a singer who loses his bride to snake-bite, visits the underworld to reclaim her, and loses her again through ...

What makes a myth reverberate through thousands of years? What makes artists of so many eras and creative modes — from the playwright Euripides and the poet John Dryden, to the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, ...

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