Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...

Sixty-five years after it last hosted an opera performance, Greece’s renowned ancient theatre of Epidaurus is revisiting the seminal ...

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Lyric Opera of Chicago launches its 71st season with the company premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, opening Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Lyric Opera House. This monumental production—directed ...

Most singers who perform with Lyric Opera of Chicago are artistic nomads who live elsewhere. They spend six to eight weeks here for rehearsals and performances, then they depart for their next ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five ...

I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

FREDONIA The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present a high-definition broadcast of London’s National Theatre production of “Medea” on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Terrible things breed in broken hearts. Medea ...

Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 setting of the Medea myth should be a double-edged terror: The audience should be horrified that the title character debates at length whether to cede her sons’ lives and ...

Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi performs in the opera 'Medea' at the Ancient Greek theatre of former city Epidaurus Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi (R) and Greek operatic baritone Tassis Christoyannis ...