The world’s oldest surviving opera, Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” was written 420 years ago. On Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Opera presented the premiere of the world’s ...

Set in a 1950s “Mad Men”-era dreamscape, Inland Northwest Opera’s all-new production of Christoph Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” reimagines Orpheus, the hapless hero, as a musician mourning the loss ...

Aucoin, 31, is a polymath: the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, he's a pianist, conductor, composer, impresario and writer. And he loves opera—even if he finds it an "impossible" art form. "I ...

Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. One of the defining early works ...

This Jan. 25, 2020 photo released by the LA Opera shows Danielle de Niese, foreground center, with Kevin Ray, background from left, Raehann Bryce-Davis and Stacey Tappan as the Three Stone sduring a ...

In 2016, Los Angeles Opera offered a three-year appointment to Matthew Aucoin as the company’s first composer in residence. A Harvard graduate, he arrived in LA at the age of 26 already hailed as one ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s teeming, wearying adaptation of her play is a contemporary vision of the Orpheus myth. By Zachary Woolfe ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired operas from the beginning of the art form, more than 400 years ago. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: ...