Tiresia, a transsexual prostitute, is kidnapped by a man obsessed with her exquisite beauty. Bound by ropes and kept prisoner, Tiresia is deprived of her daily hormones and begins transforming back into a man. Disgusted by this, her captor savagely blinds her and leaves her for dead. Caught in a pitiful state between two sexes, Tiresia develops second sight.

In Persian mythology, Syngué Sabour is the name of a magic black stone, representing patience that welcomes and absorbs all the troubles and worries of the people talking to it. It is epitomized by a soldier who has been shot in the neck but who miraculously survives. He is now lying in his bed, in a coma, his wife by his side, nursing him while caring for their two daughters. In the early stages of his coma, she speaks gently to him, but as the...

Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world.

In cooperation with the Boston Early Music Festival, cpo is releasing two baroque operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, works proving to be both complex and highly entertaining. Charpentier wrote an impressive number of sacred works; the number of secular works is considerably smaller, but similarly varied. These two works are genuine standouts. The BEMF once again presents a marvelous cast of young soloists for the interpretation of these two vibrant...