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

Zgrada na Rujan 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Više na
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. U to, 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’, gdje glazba uvijek vozi priča. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 Travanj 1762 was a great success – so much so that Gluck himself revised the opera for the French premiere at the Paris Opéra on 2 Kolovoz 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. To je više, veća i raskošnija; Gluck prošireni pokreti, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. On također preinaka ulogu Orfej iz ALT castrato haute-contre Francuske opere, vrlo visoki tenor. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, i orijentir u opernoj povijesti.