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 ...

Pinchgut Opera performs Bach's glorious Easter Oratorio featuring young soloists Alexandra Oomens and Anna Dowsley, followed by the rarely-heard Thunder Ode of Telemann. In 1755 Lisbon was virtually ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg ...