The story of Orpheus’ descent into 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 ...

Unlike many productions, this visually striking “Orpheus and Eurydice,” by Jose Maria Condemi, bringing Gluck’s masterpiece back to Seattle Opera after a 24-year absence, was created entirely by the ...

In the Greek myth of lovers Orpheus and Eurydice, Eurydice dies shortly after the couple’s wedding, and a grief-stricken Orpheus journeys to the underworld to bring his wife back to life. He is ...

The earliest mentions of a supreme musician called Orpheus date back to the sixth century BCE, and in the fourth century BCE the philosopher Plato commented specifically on the myth of Orpheus and ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

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 ...

Talk about 'spoiler alerts,' there was a big one for me early in the opera, EURYDICE, by Matthew Aucoin to a libretto that he and Sarah Ruhl fashioned from her play of the same name, which had its Met ...