2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera With even large companies struggling to survive, why did ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...