LOS ANGELES — Composer Matthew Aucoin began working on “Crossing,” his first opera, when he was in college. It was a work of enormous talent, exciting promise and considerable hubris: Aucoin wrote his ...

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 ...

There are few entertainments at the Met more delightful than Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” which adds a helpful note of charm to one of the most serious operas ever written.

While resurrecting the oldest surviving opera, Haymarket Opera and the Newberry Consort built on more recent history. Chicago hosted the American premiere of Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” in 1967, when ...

But how much does it really add to the unfolding drama? The theme of this year’s EIF is The Truth We Seek, and there’s a useful essay in the programme about how, in Orpheus, Gluck sought to restore ...