Christoph Willibald Gluck News

Opening the 2026 lyric season at Theatro São Pedro, Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers) by Jacques Offenbach arrives in a vibrant new staging directed by Cibele Forjaz, with André Dos Santos leading the orchestra. Premiered in 1858, Offenbach’s groundbreaking operetta offers a witty, satirical twist on the Orpheus myth, transforming tragedy into irreverent comedy. With its mix of spoken dialogue, lively ensembles, and dance, the work helped define the operetta genre. Highlights include the iconic “Galop infernal,” forever linked to the can-can. Performances run April 17, 19, 22, 24, and 26, inviting audiences to experience a sparkling, subversive classic that remains as entertaining today as ever.

Pittsburgh Opera revealed its 2026-27 season, its 88th, featuring five productions across four venues, including a world premiere, and classic works by Verdi, Handel, Gluck, and Gounod.

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring a mix of new productions and returning repertoire across opera and ballet.

What did our critic think of OPERA À LA CARTE'S PRODUCTION OF OFFENBACH'S ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Of Del Mar? With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte? Her goals were laudable. As national opportunities continued to shrink, she wanted to provide new ones to local professional opera singers and attract San Diegoans new to opera with lower cost tickets and less intimidating venues. But could she succeed during such a difficult period? Opera À La Carte began with vocal recitals at small venues, and last year graduated to its first full opera.

Washington Concert Opera has announced that single tickets are now on sale for its 39th season at Lisner Auditorium. The 2025/26 season will feature Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, and Mozart’s Idomeneo, with leading American singers under the baton of Artistic Director Antony Walker.

Obras de Gluck, Mozart y Schubert, entre otros destacados compositores, serán interpretadas por el bajo Fernando Lozada Toxcoyoa y el pianista Israel Barrios el viernes 11 de julio a las 18 horas, en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

En el marco del Día Mundial del Arte, que se celebra cada 15 de abril, establecido por la UNESCO, el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) llevará a cabo una serie de actividades conmemorativas, con funciones de danza, teatro, música y literatura.

The 2024/25 season of the Greek National Opera commences with a significant artistic challenge. Gluck’s two famous operas based on the ancient Greek legend of Iphigenia –Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride– will be presented together for the first time in a double bill.

After acting as narrator for the Orpheus myth in Hadestown on Broadway, Tony-winner André De Shields will host Orchestra Lumos' 'Orpheus Sings'.

The Bard Music Festival will present a celebration of French Romantic composer Berlioz with 11 themed concerts, 5 livestreams, and more, starting August 9.

The final Ashton Worldwide bill at the Royal Opera House (23-24 season) was a Gala programme performed by the Sarasota Ballet in the Linbury Theatre

This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.

The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2024 programming, running June 20 – August 18, 2024.

In this timeless tale of love and tragedy, the hero Orpheus (Marie-Claude Chappuis) ventures to the depths of the underworld to retrieve his deceased wife, Eurydice (Mirella Hagen), only to discover that even when working under the grace of gods, fate can be very hard to overcome.

Pittsburgh Opera continues its 2023–24 Season with Iphigénie en Tauride. Composed in 1779 by Christoph Willibald Gluck, and based on Euripides’ great Greek drama Iphigenia in Tauris, it is the powerful Trojan War-era tale of a sister whose duty requires that she kill a man who turns out to be her brother. Check out photos here!

MÉDÉE comes to Teatr Wielki in January. Performances will run 21-28 January, 2024.

Discover the emotional journey of human emotions in the concert 'Aires otoñales' at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. Mezzosoprano Estefanya Márquez and soprano Alejandra Toledo will present arias from the opera tradition. Free admission on November 10th at 6:30 PM.

Opera Atelier opens its 2023-2024 season on October 26th at the Elgin Theatre with Gluck's ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. BroadwayWorld spoke to Opera Atelier's founding co-artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg C.M. about what makes this take on the famous myth so unique.

Emoción y entusiasmo expresan quienes integran la actual generación del Estudio de la Ópera de Bellas Artes (EOBA) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), por su participación en  el concierto operístico al lado del tenor Ramón Vargas, quien celebrará este domingo los 40 años de su debut en el Palacio de Bellas Artes. 

MEDEE comes to Teatr Wielki in January 2024.  Performances run 21-28 January.