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

Royal Opera House, pubblicato set 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Saperne di più
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. in esso, 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’, quale musica spinge sempre la storia. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 Ottobre 1762 was a great success – so much so that Gluck himself revised the opera for the French premiere at the Paris Opéra on 2 Agosto 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. È più lungo, più grande e più grandioso; Gluck estesi movimenti, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. He also recast the role of Orpheus from alto castrato to the haute-contre of French opera, a very high tenor. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, and a landmark in operatic history.