Ars Lyrica Houston will conclude its 2025/26 Twists of Fate season with a fully staged production of Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented Friday, May 29, 2026 and Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM at ...

In the version of the Orpheus myth that Claudio Monteverdi relied on in composing his opera L'Orfeo, Orpheus uses his musical powers to persuade the usually intractable Charon to guide him across the ...

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, unveiled in 1607 in Mantua, was the first masterpiece of the newly invented genre of opera. John Eliot Gardiner set the gold standard among recordings in 1987, with the late ...

In 2013, Silent Opera begins its three-year project to stage innovative performances of Monteverdi's trilogy of operas - staring with L'Orfeo, based upon the Greek legend of Orpheus. In the production ...