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Before there was George Bernard Shaw (or My Fair Lady, for that matter) there was Rameau’s take on the myth of Pygmalion – the artist so in love with his own creation that she comes to life. The ...

Though the two short operas have been in Opera Atelier’s repertory for nearly all of its 33 seasons, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Actéon and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pygmalion have been paired together ...

One of the most heartwarming stories in Greek mythology comes to life — literally — when the New Orleans Opera Association stages its production of 18th-century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s ...

They've done Italian. They've done German. They've done English. They've done Polish (naturally: they hail from Poland). So it was only a matter of time before Dorota Sobieska and Jacek Sobieski would ...

The opening opera, Actéon, was written by Marc-Antoine Charpentier in 1683 for his patron, King Louis XIV. It tells the story of a young prince who prefers hunting over amorous entanglements. Out in ...

For so compact a drama (just four characters, including the Statue) the emotional stakes are surprisingly high, largely owing to an extraordinarily virtuosic sequence of arias and ariosos for ...