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 ...

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Los Angeles Opera is presenting an updated, socially relevant, radically different interpretation of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s 1774 opera/ballet, “Orpheus and Eurydice.” It is adapted, directed, ...

Opera singer Lisette Oropesa is having some trouble with the laces on her pale pink pointe shoes. It’s a rainy Friday morning, and inside a big, fluorescent-lighted Los Angeles Opera rehearsal space ...

His three muses were a mixed blessing—but not mixed enough, too undifferentiated in height and appearance. Tiler Peck danced impeccably (as she always does), but for me Terpsichore is both more leggy ...

Cape Town City Ballet will revive Veronica Paeper's Orpheus in the Underworld in the Artscape Opera House from September 29 to October 7. The comical ballet is based on the Greek legend of Pluto, God ...

Death be not proud, but Paris Opera Ballet should be — of its stunning production of Pina Bausch’s “Orpheus and Eurydice,” the tale of the man who dared to rescue his bride from the underworld, only ...

Seattle Dance Project’s “Project Orpheus,” the company’s take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, returns to ACT: A Contemporary Theatre this weekend and next — with some significant changes.

Los Angeles Opera is presenting an updated, socially relevant, radically different interpretation of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s 1774 opera/ballet, “Orpheus and Eurydice.” It is adapted, directed, ...