In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

Music moves people to tears, forges strong personal connections, unlocks long-forgotten memories and can provide comfort. In recent years, scientists have also found that music can help improve brain ...

Orpheus|PDX concludes its 2025 season with Jacqueline, a bold and deeply moving new opera about the life and music of legendary British cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Featuring a libretto by Pulitzer ...

Ashnaa Sasikaran as Eurydice and Nicholas Watts as Orpheus with members of the Orpheus company We see the respective friends and family gathered, dressed in their best for such an occasion, and the ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

It's a tale familiar from Virgil and Ovid. The beautiful Eurydice, newly married to the musician Orpheus, is killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus descends to Hades to bring her back to ...

With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte? Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, ...

If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...

In the myth of Orpheus, the demigod’s bride, Eurydice, dies of a snakebite; he goes to Hades to persuade the god of the underworld, through the power of his music, to return her. Pluto instructs that ...

Offenbach turns the well known myth upside down in this Pocket Opera and Napa Valley Opera House presentation of "Orpheus in the Underworld." Orpheus, whose songs could draw tears from a stone, indeed ...

Orpheus and Eurydice, those doomed lovers of Greek mythology, have long been the fodder of great opera composers, beginning with Claudio Monteverdi in 1607. Gluck's version, which premiered in 1762, ...