This is an opera about everything,” director Ido Ricklin says. "“It’s about love and loneliness, idealism and self-interest – ...

Discovered in 1909, the Mysteries frescos feature Dionysus and his bride Ariadne surrounded by an entourage of bacchantes, fauns, and winged figures who are engaged in various rites. Like the ...

Because these characters are named after Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus, or based on stories of Dionysus, and Ariadne and Theseus, and because scenes are entitled “The Story of ...

Dionysus, also known by the Roman name Bacchus, is not only a god but an object of frenzied worship. His followers are Bacchae, mortal women who, according to the Greek dramatist Euripides in his ...