Orphée et Eurydice – ‘J’ai perdu mon Eurydice’ (Juan Diego Flórez, Die Royal Opera)

Royal Opera House Gepubliseer op September 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Vind meer uit by
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. daarin, he and his librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi sought to move away from the complicated plots and ornate music of opera seria, in favour of a ‘noble simplicity’, waar musiek dryf altyd die storie. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 Oktober 1762 was a great success – so much so that Gluck himself revised the opera for the French premiere at the Paris Opéra on 2 Augustus 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. Dit is meer, groter en groter; Gluck uitgebreide bewegings, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. Hy omwerking ook die rol van Orpheus uit alt castraat zanger die Haute-contre van Franse opera, 'n baie hoë tenoor. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, en 'n baken in opera geskiedenis.