Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...

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Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...

Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 setting of the Medea myth should be a double-edged terror: The audience should be horrified that the title character debates at length whether to cede her sons’ lives and ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago launches its 71st season with the company premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, opening Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Lyric Opera House. This monumental production—directed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five ...

BERLIN — For 25 centuries, a mythic Medea has haunted civilization. The sorceress — mortal granddaughter of Helios, the sun god of Greek mythology — kills two of her children as revenge for her ...

I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

This October the lyric opera house is presenting a tale of infidelity and revenge like no other. “Medea” is a millennia-old tragedy come to life. And “Brown Sugar Bakery” is celebrating with desserts ...