Manhattan music lovers were listening last week to another ... at Britain’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival —and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck’s ...

Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens (Orfeo) evidently found the role too low ... audience was charmed by the elegiac sweetness of Gluck’s music, which 200 years did not seem to age.