News & Media
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Julia Sheridan, Press Consultant, at julia@orpheuspdx.org or call 503-308-4828.
2026 Press Releases
OrpheusPDX Announces Strategic 2026 Hiatus, Plans Bold Return in 2027 – Press Release
2025 Press Releases
OrpheusPDX Announces its Fourth Season – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces Partnership with Multiple Sclerosis Society of Portland – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces Participants for its 2025 Pathways Program – Press Release
2024 Press Releases
OrpheusPDX Continues its Third Season with Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Opens its Third Season with Handel’s Acis, Galatea & Polyphemus – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces Participants for its 2024 Pathways Program – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces its Third Season – Press Release
2023 Press Releases
OrpheusPDX Continues its Second Season with Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Opens its Second Season with Mozart’s Comic Gem The Royal Shepherd – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces Participants of New Pathways Program – Press Release
Single Tickets Now On Sale to OrpheusPDX August Operas – Press Release
OrpheusPDX Announces its Second Season – Press Release
2022 Press Releases
The Curtain Rises on a New Opera Company in Portland – Press Release
We hope you enjoy these videos! You’ll find more on OrpheusPDX’s YouTube channel.
Videos
What audiences are saying about OrpheusPDX Watch Video Here
Highlights from Woolf & Vavrek’s Jacqueline, 2025 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Mozart’s Scipio’s Dream (Il Sogno di Scipione), 2025 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf, 2024 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Handel’s Acis, Galatea & Polyphemus, 2024 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Muhly’s Dark Sisters, 2023 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, 2023 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher, 2022 Season Watch Video Here
Highlights from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, 2022 Season Watch Video Here
Read the reviews from our past seasons.
2025 Season
- OrpheusPDX pairs early Mozart with a new opera about cellist Jacqueline du Pré – The Oregonian
- OrpheusPDX’s ‘Scipio’s Dream’ and ‘Jacqueline’ make opera intimate and modern – Oregon ArtsWatch
Scipio’s Dream Reviews
- Tall and visible among turbulent water: OrpheusPDX’s “Scipio’s Dream” – Oregon Artswatch
- Updated ‘Scipio’s Dream’ turns early Mozart opera into a fun romp – Northwest Reverb
Jacqueline Reviews
- An electric current: OrpheusPDX’s production of “Jacqueline” – Oregon Artswatch
2024 Season
- Something old, something new: OrpheusPDX presents Handel and Hertzberg – The Oregonian
- Transformative redemption: OrpheusPDX’s pair of doomed love operas – Oregon ArtsWatch
- OrpheusPDX’s Pathways Program gives young professionals an onramp into opera – Oregon ArtsWatch
Acis, Galatea & Polyphemus Reviews
- Charming Cocoon of Love: OrpheusPDX’s intimate production of Handel’s “Acis, Galatea & Polyphemus” – Oregon ArtsWatch
- Well-paced Presentation of the Ill-fated Love Triangle – OperaCanada
The Rose Elf Reviews
- Exploring empathy in “The Rose Elf” by OrpheusPDX – Portland Tribune
- Keeping life and memory alive: OrpheusPDX’s production of David Hertzberg’s “The Rose Elf” – Oregon ArtsWatch
2023 Season
The Royal Shepherd Reviews
- OrpheusPDX Crowns Il Re Pastore as a Modern Political Fable – NW Reverb
- The Choice Between Duty and Love: Mozart’s Forgotten “Shepherd” – Oregon Arts Watch
Dark Sisters Reviews
- OrpheusPDX’s Production of Dark Sisters – NW Reverb
- Real Life on the Fringes: OrpheusPDX’s “Dark Sisters” – Oregon Arts Watch
- OrpheusPDX 2023 Review: Dark Sisters – OperaWIRE
2022 Season
- Don’t Look Back: Christopher Mattaliano’s OrpheusPDX – Oregon ArtsWatch Review
L’Orfeo Reviews
- OrpheusPDX Company Opens with “L’Orfeo” – Portland Tribune Review
- OrpheusPDX Brings an Old Hand and a New Vision to Portland’s Opera Scene – Oregon Live Review
- Mark Mandel Reviews OrpheusPDX’s “L’Orfeo” – Opera News Review
- The Light That Once Put the Sun to Shame: Orpheus in Portland – OregonArtsWatch Review
- A New Orfeo at Portland’s ‘Other’ Opera Company – Musical America Review
The Fall of the House of Usher Reviews
- Above Asking: “The Fall of the House of Usher” Opera Sells Fast – Portland Tribune Review
- Glass “House”: Philip’s “Fall” in Lincoln Hall – Oregon ArtsWatch Review
- Beautiful and Uncanny: “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Oregon ArtsWatch Review
- Mark Mandel Reviews OrpheusPDX’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Opera News Review
- Here’s a Strange One: A “House of Usher” Set in Sunny California – Musical America Review