So how do you pronounce “Iphigenia”? Opera fans are pondering this question, as the opening date — this Saturday — for Seattle Opera’s “Iphigenia in Tauris,” the company’s first co-production with the ...

With the new opera “Iphigenia” concluding a two-week residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, acclaimed bassist, composer and singer Esperanza Spalding casts new light on Euripides’ ...

IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS by Gluck, directed by Robert Carsen, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). September 28, October 4, 7, 12 and 15 at ...

Nicole Estaphan sits down with Grammy-winning bassist Esperanza Spalding to discuss her work on a groundbreaking new opera, Iphigenia. Nicole Estaphan sits down with Grammy-winning bassist Esperanza ...

Gluck's "Iphigenia in Tauris" is an opera of astonishing beauty, which Seattle Opera's new production revealed Saturday night at McCaw Hall. One might think the melodic and tonal allure of the opera, ...

“Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter's parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday night after the ...

SEATTLE — What do you get when you dust off a centuries-old, long-neglected opera and give it everything you’ve got? A hit, if the company is Seattle Opera and the opera is “Iphigenia in Tauris,” a ...

Seattle Opera will join forces with the Metropolitan Opera for the first time to co-produce the Christoph Willibald Gluck opera “Iphigenia in Tauris” (“Iphigénie en Tauride”) next year, the companies ...

In Seattle Opera’s Iphigenia in Tauris, composer Christoph Willibald Gluck and director Stephen Wadsworth spin out a slender plot into two of the most absorbing hours of opera in memory. The story is ...

Seattle Opera first ventured into the 18th-century terrain of Christoph Gluck nearly two decades ago with his most famous work, "Orphee et Euridice," once considered the earliest opera in the ...