Get all the top news & discounts for Chicago & beyond. Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands ...

Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier, is fond of quoting Jean Cocteau on the question of style in art. In so many words, Cocteau said that style is something you aim with ...

With his company Lost Dog, Duke has a gift for the flipside of stories. As in his award-winning, one-man Paradise Lost, he looks for the cracks in a narrative, levering them open to find comedy and ...

Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...

For several years now I have been hearing of the wildly creative doings coming from Opera Long Beach under the direction of Andreas Mitisek; operas in swimming pools, drag queens in Threepenny Opera, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five ...

Some of the most memorable operas revolve around family drama. Medea, written by Luigi Cherubini in the late 18th century, is based on the ancient Greek play by Euripides and the work of French ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago launches its 71st season with the company premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, opening Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Lyric Opera House. This monumental production—directed ...

Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 setting of the Medea myth should be a double-edged terror: The audience should be horrified that the title character debates at length whether to cede her sons’ lives and ...

No fewer than eight operas (and an almost equal number of plays) have staged her story, but have any really got to grips with the psychology of tragedy’s wickedest witch? I’m afraid that Georg Benda’s ...

The ENO’s UK premiere of Charpentier’s Medea is a wonderful mix of new and old — refined but robust, simple yet extravagant. For regular opera goers, this may not be in line with the usual, but for ...