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

Royal Opera House Published on Sep 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Ngerteni luwih ing
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. ing, 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’, ngendi music tansah drive crita. 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 Agustus 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. Iku maneh, luwih gedhe lan grander; obahe lengkap Gluck, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. Dheweke uga recast peran Orpheus saka alto castrato menyang haute-contre saka opera French, a tenor dhuwur banget. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, lan tengara ing sajarah operatic.