In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

For centuries, Orpheus has fascinated composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Philip Glass. But of those who have turned the mythological musician’s underworld-charming lyre tunes to opera, Georg ...

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Though the baroque revival has forced a major reappraisal of much of Telemann's colossal output, his operas remain unknown quantities, and Classical Opera's Orpheus at this year's London Handel ...

To round out City Opera’s first season away from Lincoln Center, George Steel has come up with a true novelty—“Orpheus,” a work by the Baroque master Georg Philipp Telemann, staged at a new venue for ...

Harmonia Mundi has just reissued 10 complete opera recordings by the countertenor-turned-conductor Rene Jacobs. The scores range from the familiar (Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," Monteverdi's ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg ...