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

Royal Opera House offentliggjort på Sep 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Find ud af mere på
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. I det, 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’, hvor musikken altid drev historien. 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 August 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. Det er længere, større og grander; Gluck forlænget bevægelser, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. Han også omarbejde rollen af Orpheus fra alto kastrat haute-contre af franske opera, en høj tenor. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, og en milepæl i Opera historie.