Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Jan. 25, 2020 photo released by the LA Opera shows Danielle de Niese, foreground center, with Kevin Ray, background from left ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired operas from the beginning of the art form, more than 400 years ago. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: ...

For centuries the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has been one of fiction’s great tragedies. As the story goes, the newlyweds are torn apart when Eurydice dies and the great musician Orpheus ...

In 2016, Los Angeles Opera offered a three-year appointment to Matthew Aucoin as the company’s first composer in residence. A Harvard graduate, he arrived in LA at the age of 26 already hailed as one ...

Before a single line of Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play “Eurydice” is spoken, a curious stage direction stands like a sentinel at its front gate. Ruhl’s production notes specify that in this reimagining of the ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired operas from the beginning of the art form, more than 400 years ago. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: ...

In 2016, Los Angeles Opera offered a three-year appointment to Matthew Aucoin as the company’s first composer in residence. A Harvard graduate, he arrived in LA at the age of 26 already hailed as one ...

Aucoin, 31, is a polymath: the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, he's a pianist, conductor, composer, impresario and writer. And he loves opera—even if he finds it an "impossible" art form. "I ...