Second-year Meg Brooks and 2008 alumnus Dave Nagel stare into each other’s eyes. Second-year Meg Brooks and 2008 alumnus Dave Nagel embrace before Eurydice (Brooks) is lost in the Underworld.

On April 30, “Shades and Shadows” had its world premiere at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. The play, written by playwright William Brasse and directed by UC Berkeley alumna CC Miller, is a new ...

The earliest mentions of a supreme musician called Orpheus date back to the sixth century BCE, and in the fourth century BCE the philosopher Plato commented specifically on the myth of Orpheus and ...

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Orpheus and Eurydice, those doomed lovers of Greek mythology, have long been the fodder of great opera composers, beginning with Claudio Monteverdi in 1607. Gluck's version, which premiered in 1762, ...