NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful ...

“Orpheus is a singer; he rescued Eurydice with the power of song.” When Claudio Monteverdi presented L’Orfeo in 1607, he began Italian opera. During Possente Spirto, his version of Orpheus ...

Amour the messenger of the gods tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice His singing has the power to appease the Furies and animate the blessed Shadows Yet his ...

the quintessential archetype of the poet, embarking on a journey that will lead him into the depths of the underworld, in a desperate attempt to bring his deceased wife Eurydice back to life ...