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, ...

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 ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — 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 ...