In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

Telemann wrote some 50 operas, of which all but one (a little comedy called Pimpinone) have languished in obscurity since his death in 1767. This disc attempts a reappraisal of the rest of his ...

For centuries, Orpheus has fascinated composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Philip Glass. But of those who have turned the mythological musician’s underworld-charming lyre tunes to opera, Georg ...

Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time Spare a ...

Mountainside Baroque will present a ground-breaking production of Telemann’s comic serenata, “Don Quixote at Comacho’s ...

Can an obscure opera from 1725 with a cast of just two, a bare-bones plot bordering on the absurd and a production using early instruments and historic performance techniques reach a contemporary ...

In its four seasons, Chicago’s Haymarket Opera Company has staked out an enviable corner of the period-performance turf and, in the process, built an avid following, eager to experience the latest ...