Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pinchgut Opera could not have asked for a better start to their second opera for 2014. The gods are clearly angry. Outside, lighting ...

It always seems to happen in these mythological operas. Everything seems like it’s settled, the characters’ fates are sealed, and suddenly a deus ex machina shows up to save the day. This certainly ...

The 2007 production, sung in the original French, has returned this month with the same starry cast of singers in principal roles -- mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (Iphig nie), tenor Placido Domingo ...

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play and first performed in Paris in 1779. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at the music ...

English Touring Opera’s spring tour takes them all over England from now until early June. I admire ETO, who, under their long- serving general director James Conway, offer, on a minimal budget, ...

Watching Robert Carsen's production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, I was more than once reminded of the Turner prize, and in particular The Lights Going On and Off, Martin Creed's controversial ...

A woman in black emerges and makes her way slowly downstage. This is Iphigenie; her name is chalked up on the back wall by a shadowy group of other women. All hell then breaks loose. A terrible storm ...

Michael Halliwell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Showing at Sadler’s Wells this week, Iphigenie - created a quarter-century ago in 1974 - may be the last many of us see of Bausch's company now that the first lady of dance-theatre is dead. Sadly ...