"Orphée," the Philip Glass opera, was the surprise hit at Portland Opera last year. Based on Jean Cocteau's on the Orpheus myth, it's a somber parable about the creative journey of an artist accused ...

Virginia Opera took a courageous leap into the world of contemporary opera Saturday when it opened the Virginia premiere of Philip Glass’ 1993 opera “Orphée” at the Harrison Opera House. Whatever ...

Prolific composers, during their lifetimes, are thought to be unserious. It happened to Mozart; it’s happened to Philip Glass. And in Glass’s case, as in Mozart’s, posterity will probably override ...

Opera librettos come from many sources, so it makes sense that a contemporary composer would turn to film for his inspiration. Philip Glass took almost the entire script of “Orphee,” a 1949 French ...

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Baritone Matthew Worth as Oprhée and soprano Sara Jakubiak as Eurydice in the Virginia Opera’s production of Orphée. Photograph by David A. Beloff. Glass’s opera is the latest in a long line of ...

They met as students in a singing class years ago, and now Siman Chung and Sharleen Joynt seem destined to be star-crossed lovers. “We were joking about it the last time we sang together,” chuckles ...

The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over ...

In 1774, 12 years after he composed a tradition-­busting Italian opera version of the mythical tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, Christoph Willibald Gluck revised it for presentation in Paris. With an eye ...

When Gluck took on the Orpheus myth, 18th-century opera was in a rut. Ahead of a new Covent Garden production, John Eliot Gardiner explains how the composer created a rich amalgam of text, music, ...