This video presents a production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's three-act opera Orfeo & Euridice. Gustav Kuhn directs the orchestra of the San Carlo Theater. The lead parts are performed ...
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Librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi and composer Christoph Gluck co-crafted the opera Orfeo ed Eurydice, adapting the basic narrative from the mythical legend that recounts Orpheus's rescue ...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck's classic tale of love in the afterlife gets a modern makeover in Harry Kupfer's restaging of Orfeo ed Euridice recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Ga...
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This set includes 3 operas performed by De Nederlandse Opera: L'orfeo conducted by Stephen Stubbs starring John Mark Ainsley, Michael Chance, and David Cordier; Il ritorne d'Ulisse in pat...
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L'Orfeo features a filmed record of a live performance of composer Claudio Monteverdi's titular opera, produced at the Amsterdam Opera in 1997 and performed in Italian. Pierre Audi handle...
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"L'Orfeo" is considered opera's first undisputed masterpiece and tells the story of Orpheus whose music conquered the underworld and restored the life of Eurydice, his wife. Monteverdi's ...
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A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and...
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This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its conte...
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Gluck told the story of Orpheus (really a meditation on the power of music) with a simple directness that has survived more than two centuries of changing musical fashions. In this 199...
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Claudio Monteverdi composed this toccata as an instrumental introduction for the opera L'Orfeo (1607). According to the composer, this introduction should be played three times before the...
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For her farewell operatic performance in 1982, Dame Janet Baker, one of the 20th century's finest operatic performers, bowed out with her signature role in this classic production of one...
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