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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025/26 Season will kick off with a searing tale of vengeance and betrayal: Cherubini’s Medea, on stage October 11–26, 2025. Euripides's ancient tragedy comes to blazing life ...

Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...

Medea, in all its forms, is a divorce story intimately concerned with the ways past relationships haunt present ones, how this haunting is infected by patriarchy and its anxieties, and how that same ...

I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Met: Live in HD" series will return Saturday, Oct. 22 for a new season of live transmissions from the Metropolitan Opera in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Met’s first production of Cherubini’s work, in the Italian version, opens the season. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is aware of the pressure. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky ...

Epidaurus: 10,000-strong ovation for National Opera's 'Medea' The production was a reconstruction of the historic 1961 production of 'Medea' with Maria Callas, staged once again in the very same venue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Ruination’ offers the underbelly of main stage happy endings (Camilla Greenwell) With his company Lost Dog, Duke has a gift for ...

Joining Radvanovsky is tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea's husband, Giasone (Jason the Argonaut); soprano Janai Brugger as the rival for his love, Glauce; bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, ...