Composer

“She is a statue of beauty when standing or sitting: grace itself when she moves,” the 18th century English writer and artist Horace Walpole wrote about the legendary Queen of France Marie Antoinette. This colourful character from French history inspired the ballet by the French choreographer Thierry Malandain that premiered with his own ensemble, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, in 2019 in the very theatre that Marie Antoinette inaugurated on 16 May 1770 to mark her wedding to Louis XVI: the Opéra Royal Château de Versailles.

Marie Antoinette’s life in Versailles is central to Malandain’s ballet, which the choreographer has created to music by two of her contemporaries – Joseph Haydn and Christoph Willibald Gluck. The piece depicts her arrival at court, her wedding day, the opening of the opera house with Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Persée – as a ballet within the ballet – the attempted escape that would ultimately be her undoing and the infamous parties and balls associated with the Queen.

Marie Antoinette

Volksoper Wien

Revolutionary Symphonies

Louvre Museum

With direction, choreography, set and costume design and lighting by Teshigawara Saburo, a dancer whose impeccable aesthetic sense has captivated audiences worldwide, this production of Orfeo ed Euridice once again brings to life a hauntingly beautiful world merging opera and dance. This intense and dynamic production shifting between life and death, between light and darkness, won the hearts of not only opera and dance fans but of art lovers everywhere. The broadcast of this production on OperaVision after the theatre performance has also generated considerable interest.

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Orpheus and Eurydice

New National Theatre

Soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais and cellist Cameron Crozman, rising stars already receiving significant acclaim, join Jonathan Cohen for the first time in a magnificent concert showcasing the French overture, a genre pioneered by Lully and taken to new heights by Bach.

Grand concert D'ouverture

Place des Arts

Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique

Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and international stars Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Heidi Stober in our first performances of Gluck’s emotionally charged Orfeo ed Euridice. Follow Orfeo’s desperate journey to the underworld as he battles fate to rescue his beloved Euridice, armed with nothing but his voice. With soaring arias like “Che farò senza Euridice,” dramatic choruses, and famous instrumental music including “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” will music—and love—conquer all?

Gluck—Orfeo ed Euridice

Harris Theater

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

YSP Closing Concert — Mozarteum Orchestra · Cimento

House for Mozart

Circa joins with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and a chorus from Scottish Opera for the European premiere of this electrifying production of Gluck’s seminal opera.

Edinburgh Playhouse

Extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform audience favorites – from beloved melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs to pieces by Brahms, Liszt, and Schumann. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

Music of Gershwin, Britten, and more

Beebe Woods

Extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform audience favorites – from beloved melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs to pieces by Brahms and de Falla. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton

St. Paul’s Church of Nantucket

MSM Opera Theatre: L’île de Merlin, ou le monde renversé

Manhattan School of Music

Returning opera to its origins, where human drama is the focus, where passion, strokes of fate and deep feelings are the focus, where music and words can respect each other as equal arts: these were the aims of an opera reform to which Gluck was committed. "Alceste" is a particularly impressive example, because with it Gluck succeeds in making the overture a part of the opera itself by preparing the audience for everything that is to come. From the particularly tragic key of D minor, from the countless sighing motifs, the constant downward movement and the painful dissonances, even the most hardened audience knows that something tragic is about to happen. Thankfully, the opera ends with a happy ending.

Cambreling – Gluck, Mozart, Liszt and Wagner

Laeiszhalle Hamburg

The Blue Ridge Orchestra continues celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season with two performances of “March Melodrama”. Franklin Keel, Asheville’s talented musician, cellist, & composer who has made several solo appearances with the BRO, will lead the orchestra as Guest Conductor.

March Melodrama

University of North Carolina Asheville

Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia

The Community Church of Vero Beach

How far would you go to save your one true love? In this classic myth of unwavering love that celebrates the transcendent power of music, Orpheus descends to the land of shadows to rescue his bride Eurydice. His music charms its gatekeepers, and the gods allow Eurydice to return—on the condition that Orpheus lead her back to the world of the living without gazing upon her face.

AT&T Performing Arts Center

Faszination Klassik: Große Opernchöre

Gasteig HP8

Last season, the Greek flutist Stathis Karapanos recorded an album with the Prague Philharmonia for the prestigious Warner Classics label. It features the complete repertoire for flute and orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki, a leading figure of Polish music in recent decades. Karapanos will perform one of these works, Sinfonietta for Flute and String Orchestra, on the fourth evening of Orchestral Series A under the direction of Polish conductor Łukasz Borowicz. 

Mozart. Penderecki. Gluck. Martinů

Dvořák Hall Rudolfinum

A myth that is unparalleled: the legend of the singer Orpheus, whose music reaches the hearts of all living creatures, overshadows the man behind the fictional character. Caught between reality and dream, the spotlight and loneliness, longing for love and narcissism, we follow Orpheus on his journey into the underworld as he demands his beloved Eurydice back.

Orpheus and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice)

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Thrilling acrobatics and striking video design combine to take us to hell and back in Circa’s awe-inspiring production. Set to some of the most stirring music ever written, this is opera like you’ve never seen before.

Orpheus & Eurydice

His Majesty's Theatre

Mezzo-soprano Diana Moore has created her own tribute to one of the most beloved of all English singers who acquired – and more than 70 years after her death, retains – an international following.

Diana Moore mezzo-soprano, narrator; Zeb Soanes narrator; John Reid piano

Wigmore Hall

Marie Antoinette By David Adjmi Directed by Mary Beth Easley Protests! Sieges! Chants of “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” echo throughout the streets. Revolutionary unrest stirs the country as Queen Marie and King Louis XVI begin to face the repercussions of their cavalier reign. Tony Award winner and University of Iowa Theatre Arts alum, David Adjmi, composes a contemporary take on the historic French Revolution which follows Marie’s nightmarish personal journey from idolized monarch to social...

University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts

Program Three • The Sounds of a Nation: Patriotism and Antiquity

Fisher Center at Bard

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Broadcast: Voice Department

Curtis Institute of Music

Last seen at the Met in the title role of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars as the mythic hero who ventures into the Underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice. Soprano Ying Fang is his ill-fated bride, with soprano Elena Villalón in her company debut as Amore, the god of love who sets Orfeo on his quest. Christian Curnyn makes his Met debut conducting Gluck’s sublime setting of the ancient tale, enlivened by exuberant choreography from the legendary Mark Morris and featuring members of his renowned dance group.

Orfeo ed Euridice

Lincoln Center

Last seen at the Met in the title role of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars as the mythic hero who ventures into the underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice. Soprano Ying Fang is his ill-fated bride, with soprano Elena Villalón in her company debut as Amore, the god of love who sets Orfeo on his quest. Christian Curnyn makes his Met debut conducting Gluck’s sublime setting of the ancient tale, enlivened by exuberant choreography from the legendary Mark Morris and featuring members of his renowned dance group.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

A Night At The Opera

Mt Olive Lutheran Church

​​Embrace the elegant structure and exquisite sense of restraint of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, one of music’s most prominent “architects” during the Classical period. American cellist Sterling Elliott joins Daniel Hope and New Century for Haydn’s beloved first cello concerto, a virtuoso showpiece for the instrument. In the second half of the program, Igor Stravinsky’s playful ballet suite from Pulcinella offers a contrasting 20th-century response to Haydn, using the amorous hijinks of the famous Italian clown to tinker unpredictably (and to the delight of modern audiences) with the shapes and patterns of centuries-old Classical melodies.

New Century Chamber Orchestra

Stanford University

Join us for an unforgettable evening of classical music as we present a program featuring some of the most celebrated works of the classical era. From the dynamic rhythms of Arriaga’s Overture in D and the dramatic intensity of Gluck’s Overture to Orpheus and Eurydice, to the lyrical beauty of Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Violin Concerto in A and the thrilling percussion of Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in E-flat, “The Drumroll,” this concert showcases the rich and varied tapestry of the classical symphonic tradition. Experience the energy, passion, and emotional depth of these timeless works as performed by the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and discover the enduring power of classical music to move and inspire us.

Drum Roll, Please!

The Maryland Theatre

Embrace the elegant structure and exquisite restraint of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, one of music’s most prominent “architects” during the Classical period. American cellist Sterling Elliott joins Daniel Hope and New Century for Haydn’s beloved first cello concerto, a virtuoso showpiece for the instrument. In the second half of the program, Igor Stravinsky’s playful ballet suite from Pulcinella offers a contrasting 20th century response to Haydn, using the amorous hijinks of the famous Italian clown to tinker unpredictably (and to the delight of modern audiences) with the shapes and patterns of centuries-old Classical melodies.

Playing with Structure

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

n the aftermath of the Trojan War, the priestess Iphigénie is tasked to kill any strangers who land on Scythia’s shores. But as Fate would have it, her brother Oreste is the first to be shipwrecked on the peninsula and brought to the sacrificial altar.

Iphigénie En Tauride

Pittsburgh CAPA School Theater

Put a spring in your step with this evening of music inspired by dance. Gluck’s gentle Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Poulenc’s elegant and witty Sinfonietta, and Brahms’ instantly recognizable Hungarian Dance No. 5 will have you swaying in your seat, while Johann Strauss Jr.’s waltzes will transport you to a Viennese New Year’s ball. Yue Bao, Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony, leads a concert that will keep your toes tapping the whole way through.

Cheers To The Music Of Dance

Sarasota Opera House

Juan Diego Flórez is a superstar tenor adored by fans and critics worldwide. With “phrasing and breath control [that] are things to wonder at” (The Guardian), his voice has been likened to “the engine in a Porsche 911; when you hear it, you know you’re in the presence of something finely tuned and luxurious” (Opera News). Flórez’s most recent Carnegie Hall recital “had the audience exploding in joy” (The New Criterion), and it’s safe to say this concert will, too, with selections by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, and more.

Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor Vincenzo Scalera, Piano

Carnegie Hall

Established in 1970 as the area’s first honors youth orchestra, Orange County Youth Symphony has continually provided young musicians with the rare opportunity to perform in a professional setting, while also advancing their love of music.

Orange County Youth Symphony & String Ensemble Fall Concert1

Soka Performing Arts Center

Orpheus was Greek mythology’s superstar musician. Stéphane brings two responses to the myth, the bewitching beauty of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Pianist Paul Lewis is among the world’s great Beethoven pianists, offering what Gramophone Magazine calls “shining musicianship.” The sprightliness of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin refreshes us with a splash of colors, vivid lights, and rich tonal variety. 

Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

Touhill Performing Arts Center

Powdered Wigs

Christ Church

What death has stolen, the musician Orpheus is determined to bring back. With Love as his guide, Orpheus journeys into the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice. But there is one condition: he must not look back at her until they return to the mortal world. Orpheus and Eurydice returns in a fully staged production for only the second time in the Company’s history. In this new production, director Matthew Ozawa joins award-winning choreographer Rena Butler to take us on a heartfelt journey into the stages of grief.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Concert 1

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral

Iphigénie en Tauride

La corona

Camarillo United Methodist Church

Back by popular demand, “A Baroque New Year’s Eve at the Opera” will usher in the new year within San Francisco’s beautiful Herbst Theatre. Start an early night on the town with a delightful program of arias, duets, and instrumental music from Baroque opera and concert, with plenty of time left for more celebrations in the evening or an early return home for a peaceful night. Bring your family and friends to celebrate a New Year full of wonderful music.

A Baroque New Year's Eve at the Opera

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

The myth of the Thracian minstrel Orpheus, whose singing not only moved humans and animals but also brought rocks and the gods of death to tears, tells of the inextricable intertwining of love and music. After his wife Eurydice dies from the bite of a poisonous snake, Orpheus descends into the underworld to beg for a second life for Eurydice. With his music, he appeases the spirits of hell, who then grant Eurydice her return to the world of the living. But on the way up, the couple must pass one more test: Orpheus is not allowed to look for Eurydice until the two have returned to the surface.

Orfeo and Euridice

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Le Concert des Nations & Jordi Savall: Mozart & Gluck

Mozarteum Foundation

Mozart Week Salzburg

Great Festival House

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto was composed just two months before his untimely death. The lyrical second movement, in particular, is one of his most touching musical legacies. Farewell and mourning also find their place in Berlioz's orchestral songs, Les nuits d'été . Both works are the focus of the Vienna Philharmonic's second concert featuring three artists of the first category.

Vienna Philharmonic II: Ticciati / Kožená / Ottensamer

Experience a stage orchestra rehearsal of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice up close. Afterwards, we invite you to a discussion with directors Carolin Pienkos and Cornelius Obonya, as well as conductor Attilio Cremonesi.

Stage orchestra rehearsal »Orfeo ed Euridice«

Foundation Concert

St. Mary's Church, Herford

Approaching a genius: With his "Journey to Mozart," Daniel Hope embarked on his first musical adventure into the Mozart cosmos in 2018. A world of sound that is always worth exploring and bringing to life anew. "His music has something otherworldly, untouchable, almost unattainable. And yet he was so human," says Hope. In his new version of "Journey to Mozart," the violinist approaches the Salzburg master by once again allowing his contemporaries to have their say: In addition to famous colleagues such as Joseph Haydn and Christoph Willibald Glück, this time the program also includes a violin concerto by arguably the most extraordinary musician of Mozart's time: Joseph Bologne, the son of a French nobleman and a slave from Guadeloupe, made a career during the French Revolution both as a violin virtuoso and composer, as well as an accomplished fencer in the Légion des Américains et du Midi.

Daniel Hope / Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Orpheus, they say, made music so beautiful that even stones responded to his song. Many music lovers would say something similar about Johann Sebastian Bach, and tonight we bring two worlds together, in some of the 18th century’s most unforgettable music.

Light and Shadow: London

Cadogan Hall 

Orpheus, they say, made music so beautiful that even stones responded to his song. Many music lovers would say something similar about Johann Sebastian Bach, and tonight The Sixteen bring two worlds together, in some of the 18th century’s most unforgettable music. The stories are timeless, but when performed by The Sixteen, every note will ring fresh and true.

The Sixteen

Cadogan Hall

Our soloist for this concert is Jacqueline Rodenbeck, a Tucson native and winner of the  most recent Sphinx Concerto Competition. Jackie will perform one of the all-time favorite  solo works in the repertoire, Felix Mendelssohn’s violin concerto. This concerto gets off  to a fiery start, so appropriately enough, we’ll lead into it with Gluck’s “Dance of the  Furies” from his opera Orpheus and Eurydice.

Discovery

Sedona Performing Arts Center

Giovanni Antonini conducts Mozart’s final symphony alongside works by two influential composers of his time. Christoph Willibald Gluck revolutionized stage music with pieces like the ballet Don Juan, while Giovanni Battista Viotti reshaped the solo concerto. Dmitry Smirnov is the soloist in Viotti’s Violin Concerto No. 17.

John Antonini Dmitry Smirnov

Oslo Concert Hall

With the rebellion against the Enlightenment’s rational order (and gathering clouds of war and and revolution in Europe and America’s colonies), art, literature, theater and music found its own way to interpret societal storm and stress.  The program focuses on works penned between 1760s and 70s in a short period referenced as Sturm und Drang. The KSO’s Associate Conductor Thomas Consolo foments the evening’s toil and trouble.

Art & Anxiety

Greaves Concert Hall

Welcoming back Victoria’s own Josh Lovell in the title role, this piece will be one of the first explorations of French Baroque in the company’s history. Based on the famous Greek myth of the musician Orpheus who conquers the spirits of hell using the power of music to bring his love back from the underworld.

Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice

Pacific Opera Victoria

One evening, he suddenly appears—a mysterious old man with a head full of music. He claims to be a knight—but there's something different about him...

4.  Children's concert Ritter Gluck

Theater Lübeck

Orpheus and Eurydice is a true operatic masterpiece, blending pure emotion with musical elegance.
Inspired by the ancient myth, it tells the moving story of Orpheus's journey to the Underworld to bring his beloved back to life. Carried by sublime arias and poignant orchestration, this opera celebrates the power of love and song in the face of death.

In partnership with the Vichy Opera, Clermont Auvergne Opéra allows you to attend this opera by giving you a reduced rate on the price of the ticket and by providing you with a shuttle from Clermont-Fd to take you to Vichy (Round-trip shuttle fare excluding the price of the show: €10 – Please note: Limited capacity)

Pre-book your ticket and travel with the Clermont Auvergne Opéra box office. Once your seat has been pre-booked, the Vichy Opera will contact you to confirm your ticket reservation.

Composer

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 20, 2025 - Apr 5, 2026

Marie Antoinette · Volksoper Wien

Dec 31, 2025

A Baroque New Year's Eve at the Opera · American Bach Soloists

Jan 25 - Mar 4, 2026

Orfeo and Euridice · Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Jan 26, 2026

Le Concert des Nations & Jordi Savall: Mozart & Gluck · Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Jan 28, 2026

Mozart Week Salzburg · Wiener Philharmoniker

Past events

Dec 20, 2025 - Apr 5, 2026

Marie Antoinette · Volksoper Wien

Dec 5, 2025

Revolutionary Symphonies · Les Talens Lyriques

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