Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. ORFEO, written in the mid-18th century, was an opera of a different stripe for its ...
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 ...
Opera companies like to perform Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” every so often for the same reason that some people indulge in periodic toxic cleansing. Opera’s steady diet of inflated emotion, its ...
2003-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Gluck's 1762 masterpiece "Orfeo ed Euridice" proclaimed a whole new aesthetic approach for opera, a stripped-down, efficient alternative to the ornate display ...