The Met Opera regrets to announce that the Met has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season of live performances due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes all performances and Live in HD ...
NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that ...
In an episode from Mad Men (another excellent piece of art dating from 2007), Roger Sterling says it is particularly American to want a “tragedy with a happy ending.” Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice might ...
It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale-an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing. Variations on the plot of the underground rescue-mission in which the hero must conceal his ...