Juneau’s Orpheus Project, formerly known as Opera to Go, will present its production of “L’Orfeo: The Tale of Orpheus” on February 12, 13 and 14 in Juneau. The production features music direction by ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. Killer Queen Opera's production of L'Orfeo follows Orpheus ...

In the version of the Orpheus myth that Claudio Monteverdi relied on in composing his opera L'Orfeo, Orpheus uses his musical powers to persuade the usually intractable Charon to guide him across the ...

Monteverdi’s retelling of the Orpheus myth in a bold but unconvincing contemporary setting Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo from 1607 is one of the very first operas, and the earliest to enjoy a place in the ...

We Europeans tend to think of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as “ours”, but the story of a singer who loses his bride to snake-bite, visits the underworld to reclaim her, and loses her again through ...