This is exactly what is needed right now: a wacky world of gods where the party never ends and everyone dances the can-can! At any rate, that is what Eurydice desires. She is tired of the tedious ...

With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte? Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, ...

In the myth of Orpheus, the demigod’s bride, Eurydice, dies of a snakebite; he goes to Hades to persuade the god of the underworld, through the power of his music, to return her. Pluto instructs that ...

If Hell were as much fun as it is in the Opera North’s production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus and the Underworld,” we’d be making reservations. After all, Mount Olympus — home of Jupiter and the good, ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego presents Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld Get ready for glitter, grooves, and Greek gods like you’ve never seen them before! Join Opera À La Carte San Diego for a ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

If you think of the opera solely as a stuffy affair featuring a woman in a Viking helmet, you’re obviously unfamiliar with Jacques Offenbach. In the 19th century when his contemporaries were busy ...

The fair Eurydice has had it up to here (picture hand under her chin) with her sketchy fiddle-playing husband Orpheus and takes up with the shepherd Aristaeus, who turns out to be Pluto, whom she ...

What: Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld." Where: Alice Busch Opera Theater, Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, New York. When: July 7th, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances continue in repertory through ...

Best known for its high-kicking can-can, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld – just over 150 years old – was originally a scurrilous political satire, in the same way as Gilbert and Sullivan tore ...