Orphée et Eurydice – ‘J’ai perdu mon Eurydice’ (Juan Diego Flórez, The 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. Fantaro bebe kokoa amin'ny
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. Ao anatiny, 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’, mozika foana izay mitarika ny tantara. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 Oktobra 1762 was a great success – so much so that Gluck himself revised the opera for the French premiere at the Paris Opéra on 2 Aogositra 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. Izany intsony, lehibe kokoa sy lehibe kokoa; Gluck maharitra hetsika, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. Izy ihany koa ny anjara asan'ny recast Orpheus avy Alto castrato ny Haute-contre ny frantsay opéra, avo dia avo toetra mahazatra hita. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, ary iray nanan-tantara tamin'ny operatic tantara.