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In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

In Greek mythology, the poet, musician and prophet Orpheus rescues his wife from hell. But the couple's earthly reunion is fleeting; Euridice is pulled back to the underworld after Orpheus, unable to ...

A fascinating aspect of Samson—the lost opera from the 1730s with music by Jean Philippe Rameau and words by Voltaire that inspired the creation of a new opera at the Aix-en-Provence Festival this ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

VIENNA (AP) — Two tenors in the same role at the same time — what could have been a recipe for disaster turned instead into a delightful operatic performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Alceste,” ...