At one point in English National Opera’s staging of Philip Glass’s 1993 opera Orphée, a character says, “Don’t look to me for help. I don’t know much more than you.” I know the feeling: the opera’s ...

3 Contest: Win Tickets to THE FAMILY ALBUM at La Jolla Playhouse Shortly after he wrote the long poem "L'Ange Heurtebise" in 1925, Cocteau adapted the legend of Orpheus and his descent into Hell to ...

From one angle, this looks like an open invitation (and an open goal) for this high-concept production. Jones ingeniously – if relentlessly – focuses on the mysterious art of film, which Cocteau ...

Ontological Theater, 131 E. 10th St. Through July 28. (212) 533-4650. YESTERDAY’S scandalous plays can be a problem when staged today. Are they still outrageous, or are they merely quaint? Should we ...

IN 1993 I attended the premiere of Philip Glass’s opera “Orphée” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., and was unimpressed. The production, by Francesca Zambello, was striking, and ...

"I can't get this station anywhere else." Matthew Worth breaks the poetic code in Virginia Opera's ambitious retake of "Orphée." In Jean Cocteau’s 1949 film version of the Orpheus myth, the poet ...

Ensemble Parallèle, a San Francisco company devoted to contemporary chamber opera, scored a full-on triumph over the weekend with two performances of Philip Glass' "Orphée" at the Herbst Theatre.

Orphée (95 mins, PG) Directed by Jean Cocteau; starring Jean Marais, Maria Casarès, Marie Déa, François Périer Although I have been in love with movies since I was aged four, my mature appreciation ...

Prolific composers, during their lifetimes, are thought to be unserious. It happened to Mozart; it’s happened to Philip Glass. And in Glass’s case, as in Mozart’s, posterity will probably override ...

Of the five Orpheus-inspired operas being presented at Glimmerglass this season, the two whose plots have the most radical departure from the original Greek myth are Offenbach's Orpheus in the ...