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

Royal Opera House Publicat Sept 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Aflați mai multe la
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. În ea, 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’, în cazul în care muzica conduce întotdeauna povestea. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 Octombrie 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. Este mai lung, mai mare și Grander; mișcări extinse Glück, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. El a reformat, de asemenea, rolul lui Orfeu de la alto castrat la Haute-Contre a operei franceze, un tenor foarte mare. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, și un punct de reper în istoria de operă.