Royal Opera House Dimuat dina Sep 24, 2015
Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Panggihan leuwih di
The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. di jerona, 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’, mana musik sok drive carita. 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. Ieu téh lila, badag jeung grander; gerakan nambahan Gluck, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. Manéhna ogé recast peran Orpheus ti alto castrato ka Haute-contre of opera Perancis, a tenor pohara luhur. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, jeung Landmark dina sajarah operatic.

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