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 ...
Dancer Thulani Chauke warming up before the dress rehearsal of L’Orfeo by Monteverdi at Glyndebourne opera house. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian We go behind the scenes at rehearsals for ...
Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended “Orfeo” (twice), ...
With its slightly naff bucolic glitz, and (unplayed) drum kits and electric guitars, the opening look for Longborough’s take on Monteverdi’s revolutionary “favola in musica” of 1607 may irritate as ...
Kentridge’s distinctive style of animation – a continuous process of drawing pictures in charcoal, then rubbing details out, and adjusting them with new charcoal lines – seems particularly appropriate ...
3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera Why? Because in this version of the story, she--certainly as portrayed with sweetness and vitality by soprano Julie Roset--Eurydice was the ...